Sports
International Women’s Day: 2020 JAPAN Forward Reading List
International Women’s Day (IWD) recognizes the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Annu
Special Reports
Japan’s Trending Words in Our 2019 Stories: #KuToo
What were the words and topics that Japanese couldn’t get enough of in 2019? What were the buzzwords […]
Culture
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan,’ Edited by Gill Steel
The allegedly very large gender gap in Japan, as reported by the World Economic Forum (WEF), is a […]
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] More Cats, Dogs Than Children in Japan? That’s Pet Poop in the Press
Numerous English language articles have claimed that Japan has “more pets than children,” as though this was a singula
Politics & Security
To Maintain Japan’s Economic Growth, More Highly-Educated Women Should Pursue Careers
California-based think tank Milken Institute convened the “JAPAN SYMPOSIUM 2019,” an economic forum, in Tokyo on March
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] Foreign reporting on the Japanese population and birth rate reaches a new low
The last weeks of 2018 saw a spate of articles in the English language press reporting that the […]
Culture
A Tale of Two Japans: Does WEF Report Show Gender Gap or Data Manipulation?
Every year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) — a Swiss-based non-profit famous for its globalist elite-rich January