(Part 2 of two articles, Part 1 can be read here.) COVID-19 has affected the lives of everyone in the world, including of course the...
Sometime in late last year, somewhere in Hubei Province in central China, probably in the city of Wuhan, a spiked virus measuring nanometers in...
In early April, the American embassy in Tokyo sent out a health alert, urging its citizens to return to the United States as...
(First of Two Parts) The novel coronavirus has forced performers, who are normally so used to hopping around the world, to stay home —...
I keep looking for news articles in Japan with this title. They are nowhere to be seen, but here we are: The Japanese approach...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
While the novel coronavirus has rampaged around the world, Japan has avoided an explosion of the infection and contained the virus in the initial...
In a popular movie two decades ago, hard-eyed criminals released into Sydney a woman infected with a virus, knowing that unsuspecting Australians would catch the...
(Last of Two Parts) Part 1: INTERVIEW | Prime Minister Abe Anxious to Lift State of Emergency, Talks About Advances in Coronavirus Treatment ...
Who could have predicted that Japan’s Constitution would be marking its 73rd anniversary, just as the nation is in the midst of a crisis...
Last of Two Parts (Read Part One here.) Epidemics not Mentioned After the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was defeated badly in the 2009...
First of Two Parts (Read Part Two here) The current fight against the novel coronavirus is only the latest in a series of...