Japan, China, South Korea, and other nations including the ASEAN member states signed a major trade deal – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) –...
~The spacecraft is called Resilience, symbolizing the power to recover from adversity. ~ With astronaut Soichi Noguchi as the first Japanese on board, the new...
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...
Gymnast Kohei Uchimura's recent testing ordeal illustrates the fluidity of life during the global pandemic. Day-to-day uncertainties are a big part of what people...
The number of COVID-19 infections in Japan (positive tests) exceeded 100,000 on October 29. At a glance, this may seem like a very large...
Japan is relaxing travel restrictions further for Japanese residents and foreigners with resident status in Japan who, until now, had to jump through several...
The Japanese government has started to ease its restraints on entry, exit, re-entry and return to Japan from particular countries and regions. Vietnam...
Share prices in Tokyo are enjoying a boom. Investors impressed by the recent performance of Japan’s big corporations have been gradually moving more of their money...
Japan’s airline companies, like those abroad, have suffered gravely because of the coronavirus pandemic. All Nippon Airways Holdings Inc. (ANAHD), owner of All Nippon Airways...
Even in Tokyo — a gigantic, densely populated, modern technological center — the COVID-19 pandemic has popularized telework beyond expectations and caused people to rediscover their...
A pair of torches for the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic torch relays are scheduled to make the rounds throughout the nation's largest metropolis....
Yuriko Koike is the governor of Tokyo. She has proposed great reforms for the capital city, and here sets forth her vision for Tokyo...