A little more than a week after the so-called “Hagerty Incident” — where presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty was mobbed at Haneda Airport...
(Cover map courtesy of: Press Trust of India, cited in https://kashmirobserver.) The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has trespassed inside the Indian-perceived Line of...
It’s back to the drawing board for veteran driver Takuma Sato after a disappointing start to his 2020 IndyCar season. Sato’s No. 30 Honda...
After more than 250 years of rule, the Tokugawa government’s power had begun to wane. The Japanese people had been longing for modernization. Following the...
This essay is dedicated to Mr. Shigeru Yokota (1932-2020), who fought for victims abducted by North Korea. “Congratulations on your wedding! There will...
The recent clashes along the Sino-Indian border point to a new era in the ties between India and China. While the two nations had...
We are almost at the beginning of the yukata season. One of the joys of the Japanese summer for me is seeing all the people...
I distinctly remember feeling a chill of horror. I had never experienced anything like it in my 30 years of being a reporter. ...
I have been living in Japan for the past 15 years, and throughout that time action sports photography (starting with freestyle motocross in 2006) has...
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, I came to stress that most...
The matcha parfait is a piece of art, and Japan’s dessert masters continue to push the art form to new heights. Sometimes literally, like the dizzyingly...
On June 4 the world marked the 31st anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen Massacre in which the Chinese government employed lethal military force to crack...