By Masashi Nishihara, PhD Shinzo Abe’s government has been advancing a diplomatic game plan known as the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy”...
Haiying Yang Twenty-nine years have passed since the bloody crackdown on citizens and students seeking democratization in the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June...
Hideo Tamura The United States, with its hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region, has been locked in a confrontation against Chinese expansionism. Now,...
Many North Korea experts and journalists around the world are still skeptical about whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a fanatical believer in...
A new book is out making Japanese history far more accessible to the English-speaking world. The book, 英語対訳で学ぶ日本 ー 歴史と文化の111項目, covers 111 highlights from Japanese history, providing...
For a country widely known for its many varieties of tea, Japan’s appetite has slowly been shifting towards coffee. In recent years, most likely due...
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unit deployed to Iraq...
For years Japan has been sounding the alarm about Chinese aggression in the western Pacific and the South and East China Sea. Chinese-flagged vessels...
Since recognition of Japan Cool in 2009 by Douglas McGray, there has been a steep increase in the number of visitors to Japan. Most visitors...
Former United States President Barrack Obama referred to himself as “America’s first Pacific president.” At the same time, China has made its own more tangible...
(Third of Five Parts) While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in the United States for a summit with President Donald Trump, JAPAN Forward runs a series...
While traveling across northern Vietnam I kept seeing a particular store called Japanese Shop that primarily sold imported goods. Curious, I asked my friend, who...