After living in Fukushima for five years and Kyoto for two, I've always had a special place in my palate for hometown produce. Every season my...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
Crown Prince Akishino, the presumptive heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, and his wife Princess Kiko visited the Republic of Poland early in the summer of 2019,...
In the early hours of Sunday, October 13, Typhoon Hagibis moved from the Tokyo metropolitan area up north-east region, heavily affecting the areas of Nagano,...
Typhoon Hagibis — potentially the strongest to hit Japan in 51 years — hit land in the Tokyo bay area around 9 PM on Saturday evening, and...
Typhoon Faxai hit the Tokyo area past about 5 A.M. on Monday, September 9, causing casualties, damage to properties, and disruption to transportation in...
Tohoku has slowly been trying to get back on its feet since the triple disasters of March 11, 2011. With many of its towns along...
Representatives from members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) who spoke at a meeting in late April which adopted a report leaving in place a...
Sumo is a sport that has a long tradition in Japan, which spreads far and wide in the country. Even the tiny city of Fukushima,...
Teaching English in Japan: The Rewards of Being on the JET Programme My personal experiences as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) teaching English...
On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake shook Japan off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, triggering a massive tsunami which devastated the Japanese mainland...