Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the cover design that had appeared on...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
English language coverage of the coronavirus issue shows once again the poor quality of English language reporting on Japan — reporting that is biased, incompetent,...
What were the words and topics that Japanese couldn’t get enough of in 2019? What were the buzzwords on everyone’s lips? For this...
Many general interest and sports media are reporting that tennis star Naomi Osaka, a citizen of both the United States and Japan, has elected to...
The spring and summer months of 2019 have seen a spate of articles about the allegedly high rates of “virginity” among Japanese, especially 40-year-old...
On the last day of 2018 the editorial board of The New York Times (NYT) issued one of its ex cathedra statements telling Japan and...
Numerous English language articles have claimed that Japan has “more pets than children,” as though this was a singular and defining characteristic of Japanese society....
Foreign pundits and journalists occasionally invent stories about Japan. But more typically they take something that has been said by Japanese and exaggerate it to...
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: [Mythbusters] The ‘Happiness Report’ that Makes Me Very Unhappy Japan's Missing Culture of 'Blowing your own...