The United States Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has just concluded a visit to Taiwan, which included a key meeting with Taiwan President...
The Xi Jinping-led dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party has begun to reenact in Hong Kong the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989, which crushed the fledgling...
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...
In recent talks on a new bilateral trade agreement, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and British Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss reportedly...
The Chinese novelist Yang Yi (real name Liu Qiao) — so far the only non-Japanese national to ever win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize (2008)...
In 2019, the Japanese government announced that it would invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan for an official state visit. It was a...
Lee Teng-hui may be gone, but the sense of self-identity among the residents of Taiwan that he did so much to create remains as...
[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...
China’s imposition of a draconian new security law on Hong Kong is a game changer. Thought crimes, such as spreading “malicious rumors” and lobbying foreign...
On June 30, the National People’s Congress (NPC) — the legislative body of the Communist Party of China — unanimously passed the Hong Kong National...
Late on the evening of Tuesday, June 30, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress unanimously passed and promulgated a draconian national security...
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....