Emperor and Empress visit Minami Sanriku after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 11, 2011. Japan is stepping up disaster prevention initiatives after government...
(Conclusion) Part 1: ‘Shine Brightly’: Calligrapher Shoko Kanazawa Writes New Year Kanji for ‘JAPAN Forward’ Readers Shoko Kanazawa is one of the most...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attend a trilateral meeting at ASEAN. A recent meeting between officials...
More women are supporting developing countries through fashion. In these countries, poverty is often the backdrop to problems, such as environmental degradation, war, human trafficking,...
From September 13 to 14, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be on official visit to India—in Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, Gujarat—upon the invitation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra...
The smartphone game Pokemon GO marked on July 22 the first full year since it was launched. While there has been some decline in the...
Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, addressed last July 20 the United Nations Third Special Thematic session on Water and...
On March 17, it was officially decided that some of the baseball and softball games during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be held at Fukushima...
At Utsuomiya University in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan’s leading producer of strawberries, a harvesting robot is being developed to pick and package strawberries without human hands...
Reconstruction Minister Masahiro Imamura submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the morning of Wednesday, April 26, one day after causing an uproar with...
At the very moment I sat down to write this, right when I put my fingers on the keyboard to begin to type, my body tensed...
Six years have passed since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake but earthquakes triggered by movements in the Earth’s crust are still occurring in the Tohoku...