In early June, author Naoki Hyakuta, 61, was scheduled to speak at Hitotsubashi University during the two-day “Kodaira Festival.” University officials, however, cancelled his lecture,...
It happened in the lush woodland area of Khimki, near Moscow, late at night in July 2012. Someone set the heavy equipment on fire in...
The recent news of Otto Warmbier’s death has shocked the United States and the rest of the world—except for Japan. Sadly, Japan has long understood,...
Every year, a number of Japanese students graduate from Stanford University in California, where Daniel Okimoto, 74, teaches political science. They all go back home as...
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko,54, is known as the “key person” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration. He is considered as...
JAPAN Forward reaches out in unfiltered English to let its writers inform a wider audience of the current issues and debates in Japan that are influencing...
This article—the 3rd in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1:...
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...
The protesters of US base in Okinawa This article—the 2nd of a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017...
President of South Korea Moon Jae-in visited the disputed island of Takeshima on July, 2016 when he was an opposition leader. Takeshima is an inherent part of...
In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, the global nuclear energy sector has had the busiest year in almost three decades. Sixty reactors...
The Lower House of Representatives passed on May 23 the government’s Revised Organized Crime Punishment Law, which includes the provision of a new “anti-terror law,” with...