Discovery of the sea-route to India became the transformational factor in encouraging a new culture (namban bunka) that radically shifted the focus of India-Japan relations.
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...
~Irrespective of the change in the administration in Washington DC, there is a big opportunity for these three nations to forge a common strategy for...
He took a steamship from Marseilles and along the way in Egypt, he met an Indian man who recognized his illness immediately and told him...
The recently concluded JIMEX 20 naval exercises between the Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) point to a new era in the maritime...
[Bookmark] is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Archival accounts of 19th century Tibet describe it as the forbidden, inaccessible, daunting, and remotely unreachable territory of the Himalayas. Located at an elevation...
Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, being interviewed by the Sankei Shimbun (Photo Yoshikazu Hiroike) The Tibetan government-in-exile is based in Dharamsala...