The Week is a podcast for busy people who want to keep abreast of views from Japan on international relations, culture, and even Shintaro Ishihara’s obsession...
Japan’s focus on the 3Cs instead of large-scale testing was met with disbelief in the West; global excess mortality numbers now tell a different story.
In typical Japanese style, the country has trending words of the year and the kanji of the year. We take a look at the single unwelcome...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Bookmark is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Bookmark is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
(First of Two Parts) Part 2: INTERVIEW | Shinzo Abe on Economic Aid, Crisis Management in the Face of COVID-19 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revealed his...
Crewmembers aboard the Theodore Roosevelt and three other United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have been found infected with the novel coronavirus. Given that...
With the COVID-19 continuing to spread like wildfire worldwide, it is not surprising that foreigners living in Japan who have never even visited a doctor...
More than 440 passengers disembarked the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Yokohama Bay on Wednesday, February 19, after they tested negative of the novel...
The number of people confirmed with the novel coronavirus has been increasing daily around the world. More than 60,000 cases have been confirmed, and 1,370...