At this month’s G20 summit in Germany, United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in person for the first time. They...
Hideya Takashima, who has long worked to transform Sapporo Breweries Limited, was appointed president of the company in January this year. When the 2011 Great...
South American fire ants, dubbed “killer ants” for their particularly potent venom, have been discovered in Japan. After being spotted in Hyogo Prefecture in May,...
This article—the last in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1: Comfort...
The Trump administration in April launched a missile attack on a Syrian air base, apparently as punishment for the Assad regime’s supposed use of chemical...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 7 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about Japan’s...
Rescued after being orphaned, a wild brown bear cub has been successfully raised by a captive “foster mother” bear alongside her own offspring. The baby bear...
As winter drags on, it begins to seem that the dark and cold days will never end. But in Japan, when the plum trees blossom,...
An unforeseen proxy war is escalating over world-famous author Haruki Murakami’s first new full-length novel in four years, Killing Commendatore (Kishidancho Goroshi). In the book, one...
RIMPAC is a U.S. Navy-organized series of biennial exercises with foreign navies in the Pacific area begun in 1971 as an economically efficient way to maximize...
On the occasion of his acceptance of the Praemium Imperiale prize, awarded annually by the Japan Art Association with honorary patron H.I.E. Prince Hitachi, the Sankei...
The Northern Territories (part of an island chain called the Kuril Islands in Russian) are a set of four islands off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido,...