In North Korea, there are many Japanese citizens who long to return to their home country, but cannot. There is substantive new testimony...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Yesterday it was reported that Chinese ships have been present in the contiguous zone outside Japan’s territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands for 100 days straight,...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who has authored a book pulling back the curtain on the Trump administration’s foreign...
Against a background of international criticism of its crackdown on the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang province and police violence in Hong Kong, the Communist...
On July 9, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison reminded Japan and the world that the abductions by North Korea are a human rights matter, and...
They say, you can’t choose your neighbors. That applies to all countries, including Japan. In recent times, the island nation of Japan has had to...
The recently-released memoirs of United States President Donald J. Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton is causing a major storm, like other tell-all...
On the evening of June 16, North Korea blew up the Inter-Korean Joint Liaison Office in the city of Kaesong near its border with South...
In his review of past pandemics, historian Niall Ferguson has pointed out that unknown viruses could intensify existing tensions between social classes and between nations....
It saddens us deeply to report the death of Shigeru Yokota on June 5. He was 87. Yokota was the father of Megumi...
The non-transparency of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the non-effectiveness of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in their response to the coronavirus pandemic...
