Those who died in a battle against Soviet troops in Japan’s far north after Japan’s surrender in World War II were honored in an...
In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review, published on August 14, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono emphasized the country’s long-standing interest in pursuing a...
What Japan should seek three-quarters of a century after World War II is to break away from the Yalta systemーa framework for the postwar international...
Every August, Japan holds a series of remembrances, including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and the August 15th end-of-war announcement. But one date...
In 1853 Commodore Perry visited Japan with a complaint. Japan was not a great power which threatened the U.S. Navy, but as the ranges of...
August 10 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the National Police Reserve (NPR, Kokka Keisatsu Yobitai), the predecessor of the Japan Ground...
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was over and Germany and Japan had...
In 2019, the Japanese government announced that it would invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan for an official state visit. It was a...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
A dream can transform a life, giving it purpose. Billy Mills is living proof. The latest episode of American Voices with Senator Bill...
The United Arab Emirates’ mission to Mars is now well underway, following a successful liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...