Dear Megumi, In Japan, we are blessed with beautiful autumn skies, and the cosmos flowers are blooming. Our home in Niigata had beautiful cosmos,...
Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (cr. Michael Yon) President Donald Trump thinks he can solve the AfPak dilemma. In his speech, the United States president talked about...
Megumi(center) and her little brothers before she was abducted Hello, Megumi. Here in Japan we have been having one really hot day after another....
In July 1937, Amelia Earhart, American aviator lionized for her bravery, and navigator Frederick Noonan left New Guinea, then a territory of Australia, for the tiny United States-owned...
Dr. Monika Chansoria The tiny landlocked Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan in South Asia is the latest victim of China’s burgeoning revisionism. China’s aggression in...
Since it was given World Heritage Status by UNESCO in 2015, “Battleship Island” (Hashima) in Nagasaki has been a focal point of...
ONE PIECE (C)Eiichiro Oda/SHUEISHA One Piece, the comics series by Eiichiro Oda, will be made into a live-action TV series by a major Hollywood...
In an exclusive interview with Sankei Shimbun Newspaper in Taipei on July 13th, former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou criticized the decision of the Permanent Court...
There have recently been 300,000 serious cyber attacks around the world, and former United States National Security Agency (NSA) Inspector General Joel Brenner, 69, believes North...
(Part 1 of a Series on the Art of Kuniyoshi) Toshihiko Isao, 82, is a painter and ukiyo-e scholar. Isao’s studio is chock full...
It’s been happening since 2014: every last weekend of June, in the Republic of San Marino—a country of less than 34,000 people in southern Europe—Japanese...
Japanese Delegation and European Parliament Engage in Dialogue for Improving the Human Rights Situation in North Korea On May 4, 2017, a delegation led by Katsunobu...