Declassified documents reveal how the Japanese foreign ministry put pressure on the media to secure positive coverage ahead of the emperor's trip to China.
Hattori, with translator Graham Leonard, produced an amazing biography of Yasuhiro Nakasone that helps readers understand his place in modern Japanese history.
The memoir documents the political life of Shinzo Abe, the most consequential Japanese statesman of the twenty-first century and shares new insights.
Abe's impact was global, as four former Australian PMs were there to attest, and another message: that Japanese society will not accept political assassination.
The former prime minister is only the fourth postwar Japanese leader to receive the country’s highest and most exclusive order of awards since the end of...
Friendship, independence, the road less traveled have led these two Asian nations into steadily strengthening ties and sharing visions on the sidelines of global politics.
“I am convinced that it is the passion of artists that will help us overcome all hardships and become a force for change in the world,...
A Quiet Hope The Japan-U.S. alliance is arguably the most important bilateral alliance in the world. It is also arguably the least well understood....
In Ian Fleming’s novel You Only Live Twice, the Japanese Secret Service is a formidable organization. Directed by Tiger Tanaka, an ex-kamikaze volunteer with...
Last August 15, on the first anniversary in the Reiwa era of the end of the war, and for the first time since his ascension...
History is like a series of buoys marking the way through a vast ocean. The buoys are events, facts, things as they really happened in...
It is with great regret that JAPAN Forward reports the death of yet another of the major figures in post-war British scholarship on Japan. ...