China declared compliance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons...
First performed in 1985 at the early PARCO Theater, the play Pizarro is making a return on stage this spring. Originally titled The Royal...
The six-month countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games started on January 24, and the athletes are working hard in anticipation of the competition. ...
China has a long history of distorting its own long history. While civilizations everywhere bend the historical narrative to their own purposes, justifying and even...
A Japanese government source revealed on July 10 that the South Korean government had taken administrative actions against multiple domestic companies that had illegally exported...
Foreign pundits and journalists occasionally invent stories about Japan. But more typically they take something that has been said by Japanese and exaggerate it to...
I have recently become the proud owner of a Japanese driver’s license! Getting this document was incredibly complicated and riddled with tons of unexpected elements throughout....
“Every time Setsubun is observed, a band of ghosts would appear,” says Kesako Matsui, a Naoki Literary Prize-winning writer. What Matsui refers to as...
Near my apartment in Kyoto is a Shinto shrine of ancient origins which is known for a sacred well and its healing waters. I often...
Another unreasonable report bearing the United Nations (U.N.) name has surfaced. On November 19, the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which forbids...
New Hope for the Abductions Issue: The Government of Japan Strengthens International Cooperation to Bring the Abductees Home President Trump Breathes New Life into...
The new year is an opportune time to take stock of the challenges that lie before India on the foreign policy front. Earlier in...