Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan ‘could be said to represent heart and head, the part of us that is inside Japan and the...
The wide variety of encouraging messages received from a total of 5 international advisors and 47 laureates of the Praemium Imperiale have been received and are...
In typical Japanese style, the country has trending words of the year and the kanji of the year. We take a look at the single unwelcome...
Simulating the dispersal of airborne droplets due to a cough, Fugaku has already given something back to society for fighting COVID-19. Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer...
~Human life is limited, but I want to live forever~ Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition...
The feud has escalated between South Korean novelist Jo Jung-rae and a group of academics who refuted his anti-Japan work. Jo Jung-rae, one...
One often thinks that photo installations are all about the pictures, and the locations they are portrayed in. But we bet that you’ve never seen anything...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
It’s called “Paper pavilion” for good reason: the structure is made out of 173 paper tubes. The tubes are held together by timber joints that...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward recently caught up with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, to...
This too is going virtual: the Japan Science Forum 2020, an annual event promoting Japanese innovation originally scheduled to take place at the General Consulate...