By Mizuki Okada A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Army (VPA) visited Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) camp and bases for a week in...
Grant Newsham It seems like every few months an article appears in the Western press claiming Japan-China relations are thawing. Read enough...
The number of confirmed deaths in the disasters triggered by extreme torrential rains in a broad swath of western Japan has reached 200,...
June Teufel Dreyer The Chinese are fond of referring to their relationship with border states as “as close as that of lips...
Miki Ohtaka In 1983, the late Seiji Yoshida, who gave the Asahi Shimbun and many other researchers and media outlets his false...
James E. Auer Must Futenma—the United States Marine Corps airfield in Okinawa—remain open even if the heliport addition near Henoko is finally...
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Mizuki Okada interviewed a veteran lawmaker of the House of Representatives and opposition party member Shu Watanabe...
The National Defense Academy of Japan, the institution which trains cadets to become future leaders of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), was established in 1952,...
(Fourth of Five Parts) This is the second to the last part of Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Hideki Yoshimura’s interview with veteran investigator...
PHOTO: Having a meal with Thai police co-workers (photo provided by Kunio Tojima) (Third of Five Parts) This is a continuation of Sankei...
[Photo: collecting fingerprints with young officers at the scene of a disaster] (Second of Five Parts) Part 1: Interview with Kunio Tojima, Japanese...
While traveling across northern Vietnam I kept seeing a particular store called Japanese Shop that primarily sold imported goods. Curious, I asked my friend, who...