Beijing wouldn’t stop Chinese netizens celebrating the former Japanese prime minister’s death. Asahi Shimbun is doing the same with its senryu column.
The invasion of Ukraine has changed Japanese mindsets, dashing our illusion of peace when a dictator threatened to blow up a country with nuclear weapons.
The role of the Tokyo-based Industrial Heritage Information Center is to provide accurate primary sources and testimonies. We have no intention of changing this principle.
A healthy debate is needed to set back on track what Asahi Shimbun ruined with its concocted report on comfort women in 1991.
Critics are using the situation in Afghanistan to promote anti-U.S. ideology. They fail to take into account the problems inherent in Afghanistan.
The Summer Games also exposed various inadequacies in Japanese emergency abilities and distortions in postwar Japanese society.
Despite their different viewpoints, they all acknowledge the uniqueness of holding the Games during the coronavirus pandemic.
Taiwan may have no official diplomatic relations with Japan, but the same can be said about North Korea, which is treated as a “country” by Japanese...
While the Tokyo Supreme Court has upheld Uemura’s critics, the question remains why he lied in his 1991 articles, and how Japan can repair their continuing...
The latest ruling must therefore be criticized not only on its violation of the principle of international law on sovereign immunity, but on the basis of...
While China tries to grab the Senkakus, and work towards global supremacy, some Japanese newspapers continue to criticize Tokyo’s attempts to strengthen its deterrent capability.
As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature...
