I don’t think this “short 21st century” will be China’s century. China will have an aging society within the next 10 years.
~~ As 2020 comes to a close, JAPAN Forward is highlighting notable sports team accomplishments and individual feats by Japanese teams and athletes, both here and...
The usually anti-Abe daily runs 6 articles on the same issue in one day, insinuating his guilt in headlines that facts cannot support. I didn’t want...
Religious persecution of Tibetans, attempts to usurp the power of the Dalai Lama, depleting natural resources of the Tibetan plateau, big concerns targeted by new U.S....
Japan makes up for its short history celebrating the Christmas holiday with an abundance of creativity and array of winter illuminations
~ I tried to imagine what stylish woman wore this beautiful hat before me. I paired it with a kimono from the Taisho period ~ 2020...
It was a year when the economy survived while technology thrived, reminding us that science doesn’t stop, even during a health crisis.
We had only met twice as far as I can recall. But, his cheery greeting to a minor academic decades after our last meeting epitomizes the...
~In Japan's broader world, rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many countries to demand answers that never came. Japan’s reaction and theirs: seek stronger alliances...
COVID-19 dominated every facet of our news and daily lives from the end of January. Here we look at the international friction that clung to the...
'Let the slow steady work in the studio illuminate and give comfort to many of the conditions beyond it.' (William Kentridge, 2019)