Listen in as guest Peter Tasker chats with the JAPAN Forward editorial team about culture and politics from the Beijing Olympics to his favorite Olympic-themed movies...
Currently residing in the northern part of Japan, in Sapporo, in today’s session Agnes shares with us her experience living through the historic snowfall in Sapporo...
Companies face a dilemma: strong support for the Winter Olympics could be seen as disregard for human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, but mentioning them...
The different suit check procedure has caused the Ski Association of Japan to consider further action, while Takanashi has moved on to preparing for the World...
What Tokyo critics who stay silent on the Beijing Olympics fail to recognize is that, unlike in Japan, no one in the PRC has the freedom...
Spectators who follow the sport were largely confined to watching from home, but that did not prevent them from weighing in on the day. Here’s a...
They have become Xi Jinping’s showcase for thumbing his nose at Western critics, from athlete rights and human rights to international doping rules and the truth...
Congratulations to Ryoyu Kobayashi for claiming Japan's first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. On Twitter, we look at how people reacted in the region and...
Listen in to the conversation as the JAPAN Forward editorial team talks about February festivals.
China’s former Foreign Minister Qian Qichen says in a book: “Japan was the weakest link in the western nations’ united front on sanctions on China.” Japan...
The Olympic Charter honors human rights. After the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, will China continue to ignore calls from the international community to halt its human...