Politics & Security
Trump Visit Day 1: First ‘U.S. President’s Cup’ Awarded to Sumo Tournament Winner
Despite the frequency of sumo tournaments, the atmosphere is different for every event, determined by its location and
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Abe Calls for Japan-North Korea Summit ‘Without Preconditions’ to Resolve Abductions
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his wishes for an early summit between Japan and North Korea to move […
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Abductions by North Korea: International Issue is Victim Families’ Personal Sorrow
Takuya Yokota’s eyes were damp as he took the podium in a Reitaku University auditorium on Saturday, November [&hell
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Professor Ronald Dore, Major Figure in British Post-war Studies on Japan, 93
It is with great regret that JAPAN Forward reports the death of yet another of the major figures in […]
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Former Abduction Issue Minister Eriko Yamatani: ‘This Time, The Feeling is Completely Different’
This past year has been the second most momentous in the long history of the abductions of Japanese […]
Let Japan’s Self-Defense Forces Take Some Risk
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Sel