[Bookmark] is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed by Netflix, was found dead in her Tokyo...
In his review of past pandemics, historian Niall Ferguson has pointed out that unknown viruses could intensify existing tensions between social classes and between nations....
To overcome the global pandemic, it is imperative for the international community to swiftly develop vaccines and drug treatments for COVID-19, and make them freely...
I distinctly remember feeling a chill of horror. I had never experienced anything like it in my 30 years of being a reporter. ...
On June 4 the world marked the 31st anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen Massacre in which the Chinese government employed lethal military force to crack...
Global companies cannot exit China. Nor can people suddenly stop buying goods which are made in China, or which contain critical components manufactured there. ...
The phrase “50 years no change” became a buzzword around 1997. When Hong Kong was returned to China on July 1 of that year, the...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Monday evening, May 25, the lifting of the state of emergency in Tokyo and the remaining prefectures, crediting “the strength...