Since the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, the International Olympic Committee has been faced with the arduous task...
Criticism has been on the rise worldwide against the use of coal for emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) while it burns. CO2 and...
Amid the expanding threat from the respiratory-like ailment caused by the novel coronavirus, China has been engaging in acts designed to provoke Japan, Taiwan, and...
Dear Megumi, I know it might seem a bit strange that I am just casually reaching out to you. Are you well? February has...
“Strawberry fields forever,” as the Beatles once wrote. Certainly in Japan, considering how little land there is to grow fruit and vegetables, there seems to...
I live near one of the top five sightseeing spots in Kyoto. For the last 10 years or so, when I go out during the day,...
More than 10 years have passed since the 2009 premiere of the Oscar-winning film The Cove, which is critical of the small cetacean fisheries (commonly...
Credit: Misaki Hashimoto YouTube Channel On a cloudy day in late September, I headed for the Tokyo Metropolitan Building (Tocho) to see the famous 45th...
An Osaka University team’s transplant of pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into a patient suffering from a serious heart malfunction, which was unveiled by the...
The six-month countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games started on January 24, and the athletes are working hard in anticipation of the competition. ...
A novel coronavirus has managed to spread like wildfire — both physically and in people’s imagination — since early in the New Year. It has...
PRAGUE — The mayor of Prague said on January 21 that the capital city of the Czech Republic in central Europe had signed a sister city...