(First of 2 parts) On September 3, Princess Mako, eldest daughter of Prince Akishino, gave a press conference at Akasaka Goyochi in Tokyo with...
From September 13 to 14, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be on official visit to India—in Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, Gujarat—upon the invitation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra...
After the United States military had learned of the Nishikaichi incident, Army Lt. Jack Armstrong of the 740th Ordnance Company was sent to Niihau...
Mention “Pearl Harbor” to any American, and they will probably think immediately of ships. The December 7th, 1941, Japanese attack on the United States Pacific...
Politics and memorials to the dead are separate things. It is civilized courtesy to distinguish between them. Is it not barbarian and uncouth to debate...
On March 17, it was officially decided that some of the baseball and softball games during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be held at Fukushima...
A segment of the foreign English-language news media has taken up the report of David Kaye, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right...
It’s been happening since 2014: every last weekend of June, in the Republic of San Marino—a country of less than 34,000 people in southern Europe—Japanese...
The second satellite of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS)—the Japanese version of the Global Positioning System (GPS)—is scheduled for launch on June 1, and it...
At Utsuomiya University in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan’s leading producer of strawberries, a harvesting robot is being developed to pick and package strawberries without human hands...
The front page of the Sankei Shimbun morning edition on April 26, 2013. The newspaper announces the draft of "National Constitution of Japan". The...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, May 1, that this year is the right time to “take a historic step” in rewriting the war-renouncing Constitution....