On April 19, the Chinese government announced that it had established two new administrative districts in the South China Sea ― one for the Paracel...
On April 20, CNN reported that, according to a United States intelligence official, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was “in grave danger” following a surgery....
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on April 16 that the government was extending the state of emergency, necessitated by the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic...
The Chinese government has revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal correspondents in Beijing, effectively expelling them from the country. The move, which...
“Crisis management.” This phrase has been used frequently in Japan since the Great Hanshin and Awaji earthquake of January 17, 1995, and the Sarin Gas...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is poised to move the 2020 Summer Olympic marathon and race walking events from Tokyo to Sapporo on Japan’s northern...
United States President Donald Trump dismissed John Bolton on September 10 as the presidential national security adviser. After his predecessor Herbert Raymond McMaster’s...
In a special Cabinet meeting on August 29, South Korean President Moon Jae In made remarks about the islets of Takeshima (Shimane Prefecture) that his...
Documents detailing conversations spanning the years from 1949 to 1953 between Emperor Hirohito, known posthumously as The Emperor Showa, and Michiji Tajima, the first grand...
Last August 15, on the first anniversary in the Reiwa era of the end of the war, and for the first time since his ascension...
Should art, which promotes hate under the guise of “freedom of expression,” be condoned? Certainly not, in the opinion of the Sankei Shimbun. ...
When Japanese names are rendered with Latin letters — that is, “romanized” — the given name comes first and the family name comes last. That...