All of us like to receive compliments. The Japanese, I have noticed, particularly enjoy hearing praise from foreigners. Compliments in newspaper articles are especially...
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed by Netflix, was found dead in...
“Nobody knows anything.” That was the late screenwriter and novelist William Goldman’s assessment of Hollywood many years ago. Some might even call it...
In early April, the American embassy in Tokyo sent out a health alert, urging its citizens to return to the United States as...
Few countries in the world have decided to press ahead with elections despite the coronavirus crisis. More than 40 national polls have been postponed. Even...
Flawed people, troubled times. Conflict in the street, conflict in the soul. Dark secrets unravel in the neon-splattered backstreets of Soho (London) and Shibuya...
The picturesque Magome guesthouse (Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture) with its quintessential Edo era post town vestiges behind us, we threaded our way up a stone-paved...
On the day the government announced the name of the new imperial era on on Monday, April 1, people all around Japan gathered in...
On January 30, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) published the results of its annual members’ survey on the reporting environment in China. The...
