March 29 marked the fourth year since the passage of a historic package that revised Japan’s national security law. Before the new national security...
As COVID-19, the Wuhan virus, spreads around the world, it is important to remember that this is not a natural disaster, but quite possibly a...
I am somewhat perplexed. Why do we rarely see in our media expressions of gratitude to President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump? On...
In April 1918, a group of around 20 sumo wrestlers on tour in Taiwan became mysteriously ill, with some requiring hospitalization. Three died, including the highly...
When United States President Donald Trump thundered “America loves India, respects India” before a crowd of 125,000 at the world’s biggest cricket stadium in Gujarat...
On March 3, the High Court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case brought against me by former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi...
This is the first installment in a series on the turbulent era of Bakumatsu Japan and encounters between the British legation and samurai of the Meiji...
It is broad daylight when I and a handful of acquaintances duck into a nondescript brick building in a slightly raspy neighborhood. We have arrived...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Japan visit as state guest has been postponed. The decision is natural as it is uncertain when the new coronavirus epidemic...
United States President Donald Trump, during his first visit to India on February 24-25, reached an agreement with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to push...
Tokyo has decided on how it will negotiate with the Trump administration regarding the amount of support that Japan, as host nation, will provide for...