With one of its main premises being based around the possibility of limitless alternate universes, Adult Swim’s popular sci-fi animated sitcom Rick and Morty has continuously...
Photo credit: Memi Nojiri Under a desert moon Two camel riders Carry their lot Of gold and silver. ‘The Desert Moon’ (Tsuki no sabaku),...
As the world battles the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems to have brought out a new kind of assertiveness on the part of...
Every year on August 6, people gather at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park in the morning to observe the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack. This...
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was over and Germany and Japan had...
In North Korea, there are many Japanese citizens who long to return to their home country, but cannot. There is substantive new testimony...
Japan posted advisories to NOT travel to certain named countries and banned the entry of visitors from those countries beginning on March 9 in response...
Since the state of emergency was lifted on May 25 and normal activities have gradually become possible, the government has been trying to strike a...
Considered one of the three most important festivals in Japan, the Tenjin Matsuri finds its home at Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, in Osaka City’s Kita Ward. ...
The Tokyo Advertising Museum in Shinbashi is the only museum dedicated to the history of advertising in Japan. It was opened in 2002 to commemorate the...
How is Japan getting on in the race towards a vaccine? JAPAN Forward visited leading vaccine research scientist Dr. Ryuichi Morishita on July 6 at his...
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...