Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivered his first policy speech since becoming Japan’s leader on Monday, on October 26, during the 203rd Extraordinary Diet session,...
Above: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 16, 2020, in an exclusive interview with The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward Bookmark is a JAPAN...
Above: North Korea put its missile development on display during a pre-dawn October 10, 2020 military parade in honor of Party Foundation Day. Has COVID-19 deterred...
Japan confirmed a new prime minister in early September 2020 without having achieved any progress in bringing home Megumi Yokota and the other Japanese abducted...
Kim Dong Chul, PhD (66), a U.S. citizen who was arrested by North Korea for alleged espionage and later freed in May 2018, told...
In North Korea, there are many Japanese citizens who long to return to their home country, but cannot. There is substantive new testimony...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
Dearest Megumi, I have called out your beloved name more times than I can remember, determined to see you again, as you know. Megumi...
On July 9, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison reminded Japan and the world that the abductions by North Korea are a human rights matter, and...
North Korea has transitioned from the Kim Jong Un dictatorship to the joint dictatorship by Kim Jong Un and his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong....
The death of Shigeru Yokota in June was a reminder of the atrocities perpetrated by North Korea under its kidnapping program in the 1970s...
On the evening of June 16, North Korea blew up the Inter-Korean Joint Liaison Office in the city of Kaesong near its border with South...
