On August 3rd Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reorganized his Cabinet. After the investiture ceremony at the Imperial Palace, he launched his third restructured Cabinet. That...
(Second of 4 parts) Part 1: Comfort Woman Statues: A War Against the US, Not Japan Believe it or not, American Southerners find...
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...
China’s aggressive posturing in the ongoing Doklam plateau stand-off has clearly laid bare its claims of “peaceful rise,” which has been one of the oft-touted...
Part 1: At Yasukuni Shrine, People Pray for the Dead; Leave Politics Out of It When foreigners ask me, “What is Yasukuni?” I...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye speaks to the Japanese press in Tokyo on June 2, 2017 The United Nations Special Rapporteur continues...
By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 323 pages Henry Holt & Co.: New York, 2016 Jason Morgan, for JAPAN Forward ...
“The Greatest Alchemist.” That was how Marco Polo described First Emperor Kublai Khan in his Travels of Marco Polo during his 13th Century visit...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 5 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about...
The Dalai Lama recently concluded his 9-day visit to India’s border state of Arunachal Pradesh, amidst much brouhaha, both inside and outside the country. While the...
China has been aggressively pursuing territorial expansion in the South China Sea, building military bases and repeatedly entering Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki...
Protesters demonstrate in front of the vehicle carrying Tatsuya Kato, leaving the Seoul Central District Court after the first trial hearing on November 27, 2014 (Masazumi...