More than 440 passengers disembarked the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Yokohama Bay on Wednesday, February 19, after they tested negative of the novel...
North Korea: Give Us Back our Children and Let's Build a Future Together Their children were snatched from them ruthlessly decades apart, but when they first...
Japan’s castles are very popular for both inbound and outbound travelers as a source of relics of the past for each region, especially during the...
A novel coronavirus has managed to spread like wildfire — both physically and in people’s imagination — since early in the New Year. It has...
Japanese defense initiatives can seem like Rorschach tests — meaning very different things to different people. Take Tokyo’s recent announcement that it would buy...
When you talk about the best places to go for sightseeing in Japan, a few names come to mind, I’m sure. Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto are...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
It does not get much better than regular deliveries of small-batch Japanese food. I should know. On the 18-hour-plus haul across the Pacific Ocean from...
Dried fruit. What could possibly be so special about it? It helps to know that before the Portuguese introduced sugar to the Japanese in...
Autumn arrives early in the northern regions of Japan. In early November, minimum air temperatures drop below 10ºC, as the transition of the season...
The Group of Seven industrial democracies, at their annual summit meeting in August, should have agreed to urge China to recognize Hong Kong’s high-level autonomy and...
Japan entered the new Reiwa Era earlier this year as then-Emperor Akihito abdicated on April 30 to become Emperor Emeritus and his son Naruhito ascended...