Surely you know about the Nobel Prize, but do you know about the Ig Nobel Prize? Hosted by U.S. outfit, The Annals of Improbable Research,...
Japan’s new prime minister Yoshihide Suga held a teleconference with South Korea’s president, Moon Jae In, on Thursday, September 24, a week after taking the...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga joined U.S. President Donald Trump in calling for further strengthening of the Japan-U.S. alliance in their initial phone call, which took...
Russia on September 3 celebrated the end of World War II, a virtual anniversary of the former Soviet Union’s victory over Japan. Seventy-five years...
First of 14 parts The world expected to be celebrating the successful completion of the XXXII Olympiad (the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games), and looking forward...
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...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign commentators have been ridiculing the Japanese people for reliance on retro technology and clinging to supposedly outdated business practices. Oddly,...
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 non-transparency of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the non-effectiveness of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in their response to the coronavirus pandemic...
There is a movement in Japan and the United States to connect supercomputers to study the novel coronavirus, which is raging through the world....
The coronavirus pandemic has sent governments into a tizzy, with the United States emerging as one of the global hotspots. At the same time, this...
How long does Russia intend to cling to the state-perpetrated crime of “illegally occupying the Northern Territories” off Japan’s northernmost major island of Hokkaido? This...