They say, you can’t choose your neighbors. That applies to all countries, including Japan. In recent times, the island nation of Japan has had to...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a decoupling movement, as states try to disentangle their supply chains and political commitments from an increasingly...
Sony Interactive Entertainment unveiled to the world on Friday, June 12, the much-awaited new PlayStation 5 console. With a futuristic design and other features, it...
In this instalment of the series, I cycle from the onsen town of Beppu to the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima. Beppu is fantastic!!...
One of the missed opportunities of this difficult moment is the lack of reflection on death, a taboo. To tell the vision of the end...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics scheduled for this coming summer have been postponed for about one year because of the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping...
On March 11, 2020, Japan marked the ninth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The massive earthquake and tsunami devastated a broad...
International Women’s Day (IWD) recognizes the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Annually celebrated on March 8, the day also marks a...
Japan does New Year quite differently than other countries. In fact, many people compare Japanese New Year to American Christmas. It is a day to...
Flawed people, troubled times. Conflict in the street, conflict in the soul. Dark secrets unravel in the neon-splattered backstreets of Soho (London) and Shibuya...
As 2019 comes to a close, we at JAPAN Forward are reflecting on the stories that moved Japan this year, and the stories...
We like to think that fans of music or movies or video games are pretty much the same all over the world, but, in reality,...
