‘Wuhan virus sees Olympic football qualifiers moved — Xinhua’ Consider the above headline used by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua for its original...
(Cover photo by Domenico Squillace, Principal of Volta High School in Milan, Italy) Amid the chaos stirred by the new coronavirus crisis, The Betrothed (published...
Tokyo is canceling several major events in the next few weeks, as China’s novel coronavirus contagion spreads to Japan and more than 20 other countries....
In the last two months of 2019, two South Korean complaints — allegedly based on the period during which Korea was under Japanese control (1910-1945) —...
As the clock strikes 8 A.M., Big Ben’s chime rings out through my school’s speaker system to let the students know that classes are about to...
What were the words and topics that Japanese couldn’t get enough of in 2019? What were the buzzwords on everyone’s lips? For this five-part...
The New National Stadium, which will be the centerpiece of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, was officially completed on Saturday, November 30. On...
(First of Two Parts) The Kanto area, including Tokyo and Yokohama, experienced one of the strongest typhoons on record in mid-October 2019. Foreign press...
Interest in basketball has reached new, unimagined heights in Japan ever since Japanese basketball phenomenon Rui Hachimura was drafted by the Washington Wizards as the 9th...
The 2009 movie Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, told the inspiring story of how former South African president Nelson Mandela rallied the support of a...
The Japanese started playing rugby in the late 1890s, just a few decades after the foundation of the Rugby Union in England and the formalization of...
Rather than joining community activities, most kids in Japan practice sports in classes and clubs at their schools. Not all kids join clubs, but it...