Sports
Japan’s J. League To Relaunch Season on July 4
The J. League first-division season will start again on July 4, it was announced on Friday. The […]
Politics & Security
India and Japan Should Reassert Influence As China Makes Inroads Into the Pacific Islands
It is nearly four months since the entire world was struck by the deadly Wuhan virus. No country, […]
Culture
Dripping with Irony and Yet Lyrical: How Cartoonist Taco Lin’s Satire is Very Much Like Taiwan
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan in late 2019 has thrown the world into a frenzy, […]
Sports
[Odds and Evens] Tokyo OlympicsーA Conundrum in Real Time
“Nobody knows anything.” That was the late screenwriter and novelist William Goldman’s assessment of Hollywood man
Politics & Security
Provocations in the Senkakus Show How China Plans to Expand Maritime Control Post-Pandemic
Even as nations around the world are struggling to respond to the challenge of the novel coronavirus pandemic, [&hel
Coronavirus
[Mythbusters] Self-righteous Foreign Correspondents in Japan Claim Freedom to Be Offensive
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the [&helli
Sports
Delayed NPB Season to start on June 19
The Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) regular season will begin on June 19, NPB Commissioner Atsushi Saito announce
Politics & Security
China-India Border Clashes: Not New, But Why Now?
The recent Sino-Indian clashes in the Naku La sector of Sikkim and along the Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh […]
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Pandemic Shows Nations Are On Their Own — Historian Edward Luttwak
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been described as the worst global crisis since World War II. In an April […
Coronavirus
Q&A COVID-19: Japan’s Low PCR Test Rate
One of the hot topics over the last few months in Japan has been the low coronavirus […]
Culture
The Hojoki — Words of Wisdom for an Hour of Darkness
Sometime in late last year, somewhere in Hubei Province in central China, probably in the city of Wuhan, […]
Culture
[Corona ni Makeruna] Buddhist Counseling on Zoom, Ainu Face Masks, Social Distance Baguettes
A slogan which many have been sharing in Japan on SNS and mainstream media is “Corona ni makeruna!” It […]