As soon as Shinzo Abe announced on August 28 his intention to resign suddenly, many media outlets have carried out opinion polls to get a sense...
Rikako Ikee's return to competitive swimming is one of the most uplifting stories in these difficult times. Day after day, we are inundated...
On July 12, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Tourism fleshed out the details of unprecedented measures to promote domestic tourism called the “Go To”...
In South Korea, former comfort woman Lee Yong Soo has harshly criticized Yoon Mee Hyang, a former leader of a powerful comfort women support group,...
On March 3, the High Court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case brought against me by former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi...
“Did any newspapers write an editorial saying we need to come together and overcome this crisis?” This is how journalist Yoshiko Sakurai questioned media...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
When I requested a review copy of this book, I expected something rather similar to Japan As Number One — relatively short, journalistic, and...
In the last two months of 2019, two South Korean complaints — allegedly based on the period during which Korea was under Japanese control (1910-1945) —...
Professor Lew Seok-choon of Yonsei University in Seoul is under criminal investigation for libel and other charges for his lecture last September 19 where he said...
Free speech is rapidly becoming a vanishing commodity worldwide. Political correctness, pandemic fake news, social media “shadow bans,” and hidebound institutional biases at universities...
Source: ysnature | © PIXTA Many of our readers have probably seen bamboo growing and perhaps even visited famous Japanese bamboo forests such as the one in...