Criminal charges are filed against a sociology professor for his class discussion about the Japanese colonial period and its effect on South Korea’s development.
Practically, Tokyo’s two-decade-long investments, strong economic linkages, and growing presence in West Asia and the Middle East make it a critical economic power in Afghanistan.
In the past 20 years when the United States was preoccupied by its war on terror after the 9/11 attacks, China’s encroachment into the South China...
Japan and the European Union have similar approaches to peacekeeping that can become the basis for cooperation in their regions and beyond.
Critics are using the situation in Afghanistan to promote anti-U.S. ideology. They fail to take into account the problems inherent in Afghanistan.
Japanese economic assistance to Afghanistan had reached ¥780 billion JPY until 2020. Since gone is the partner to whom all that assistance was provided, the aid...
It has been more than 40 years for many families whose loved ones were abducted by agents of North Korea. In the meantime, North Korean people...
In Vietnam then and in Afghanistan now, the United States unilaterally ended its pledge to help defend the government. That’s bad news for Japan and other...
Foreign journalists reporting from Henan have been surrounded by angry mobs and even received death threats.
A former school teacher recalls her ordeal when Chinese authorities forced the sterilization of Uyghur women who were in their teens up to their 50s.
There were few cheering crowds at the Tokyo Olympics but the praise for Japan in the international media is unprecedented.
To fend off a future in which respect for human freedom and dignity has been destroyed, it is absolutely essential that we make the Tokyo Games...