Declassified documents reveal how the Japanese foreign ministry put pressure on the media to secure positive coverage ahead of the emperor's trip to China.
Japan is the only major country in which top elected leaders regularly give press conferences twice a day. It’s time for the media to focus on...
Critics are using the situation in Afghanistan to promote anti-U.S. ideology. They fail to take into account the problems inherent in Afghanistan.
Japan has much more to lose than money. The international trust in Japan and the Japanese people will be hard to regain once lost.
The vote-tallying process in the 2020 U.S. presidential election continues to be messy. While former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate, has...
What happens in China is becoming more relevant than ever to Japan. First, it was the coronavirus epidemic. Then it was armed Chinese vessels intruding...
By The Sankei Shimbun A Washington Post report about a “pointed remark” supposedly made by United States President Donald Trump about Pearl Harbor turned out to...
By Kinya Fujimoto The Chinese government dug in its heels on barring a Sankei Shimbun reporter from covering a high-ranking bilateral meeting between...
By Duncan Bartlett for Japan Forward Donald Trump’s noisy and confrontational approach towards politics provokes condemnation in much of the international media. ...
The Japanese media’s incessant focus on the links between civil servants and Shinzo Abe takes away attention from far more important issues facing the Prime Minister....
Japanese Media loves to cover the Kake Gakuen issue. But the question is whether this issue is illegal or not. The phrase “fake news” has...
The protesters of "conspiracy law" march at the center of Kumamoto city on June 21, 2017. Japan enjoys the Freedom of Speech. Media in Japan can...
