In November 2012, shortly after being anointed to the highest position in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even before being named head of the...
JAPAN Forward reaches out in unfiltered English to let its writers inform a wider audience of the current issues and debates in Japan that are influencing...
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...
Japanese Delegation and European Parliament Engage in Dialogue for Improving the Human Rights Situation in North Korea On May 4, 2017, a delegation led by Katsunobu...
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...
This statement was issued by Japanese academics on May 2, in reaction to the “Preliminary Report on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression in...
As the new United States administration prepares for its’ first Heads of State summit with China it will be very important for America’s close allies in...
Photo : Sea Shepherd Media Archives Another Antarctic whaling season will soon end, but most in Japan remain unaware of the fierce fight between the conservation...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s summit and golf outing with Donald Trump on February 10 and 11 could not have realistically gone much better. Expectations were admittedly...
For the past 70 years, the only strand of diplomacy and foreign relations that has really, really mattered for Japanese governments has been the management and...
Another meeting between a U.S. secretary of defense and Japanese minister of defense took place February 3 and 4, as a show of the closeness between...
“The International Community must Closely Coordinate Policies and Take Strong Action against The DPRK.” UN Imposes Tough Sanctions on North Korea, Moves to Link Abductions and...