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 2019 comes to a close, we at JAPAN Forward are reflecting on the stories that moved Japan this year, and the stories our...
When looking at big business in Japan, it can be difficult to extrapolate commonalities among their practices. But according to Santiago Iñiguez, Rector of IE...
On August 29, 2019, the Washington Post published an article, “Japan is a Trumpian paradise of low immigration rates. It is also a dying country.” The...
Charles Richardson's Ghost One fine September afternoon in 1862, six years before the Meiji Restoration, a British trader named Charles Richardson rode...
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: [Mythbusters] The ‘Happiness Report’ that Makes Me Very Unhappy Japan's Missing Culture of 'Blowing your own...
On January 17, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Jeff Kingston, a professor at Temple University Japan, under the title “Brand Japan is...
The red-colored holiday lights along the Champs-Elysees, designed to create a romantic atmosphere for couples, now evoke of the color of flames and blood....