We wrote before about the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan), an international NGO born in Japan. This year AAR Japan released...
Empress Masako celebrated her 57th birthday on December 9. To mark the occasion, she conveyed her written message to the people of Japan through the...
Beijing’s high-handed use of a fake image in its tense standoff with Canberra is not only unjust, it can be best characterized as malicious propaganda. The...
~Doctors say the ‘GoTo’ tourism campaign has contributed to people letting their guard down with the virus.~ Cases of COVID-19 have been rising as...
Local organizers have unveiled plans for how they'll tackle the COVID-19 pandemic during the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics next summer. In a 54-page report, which...
~~ ~How does Japan cope? By avoiding the 3CsーClosed spaces, Crowded places and Close-contact settings~ Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has put the...
~It bears remembering that Joe Biden is already 78 years old as he prepares to take officeーhis window for action may be short.~ In...
In August, the “Sega Akihabara Building 2” closed its doors for good. At Manseibashi intersection, the game center located in Tokyo’s Electric Town (Chiyoda...
~Europe is finally discussing the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarianism and sense of crisis surrounding China’s economic dominance – in addition to China’s infringement of human...
He took a steamship from Marseilles and along the way in Egypt, he met an Indian man who recognized his illness immediately and told him...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
~I wanted to communicate the way that Japanese smile. It doesn’t mean that they always smile and laugh.~ In Roppongi Hills Plaza 66 on...