The J. League first-division season will start again on July 4, it was announced on Friday. The pro soccer league’s 18-team top flight...
You might have heard the mantra, “We don’t have time to develop something new, let’s use medicines we already have.” Many academics in Japan...
What have you been doing in lockdown? So many kimono events have been cancelled this year. In more usual times, I would have been...
When the Japanese government first announced that Tokyo would be placed under a state of emergency, I felt that it wouldn’t be long before it...
It is nearly four months since the entire world was struck by the deadly Wuhan virus. No country, region, or continent has been able...
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan in late 2019 has thrown the world into a frenzy, and individuals, business, and governments have...
“Nobody knows anything.” That was the late screenwriter and novelist William Goldman’s assessment of Hollywood many years ago. Some might even call it...
(Part 2 of two articles, Part 1 can be read here.) COVID-19 has affected the lives of everyone in the world, including of course the...
Even as nations around the world are struggling to respond to the challenge of the novel coronavirus pandemic, China has been making provocative moves...
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the cover design that had appeared on...
The Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) regular season will begin on June 19, NPB Commissioner Atsushi Saito announced on Monday. Japanese baseball’s top official...
For many fans, Shinichiro Watanabe’s classic series Cowboy Bebop was a formative anime experience. To this day, however, it seems that even more than the show's...