An ardent fan of Western rock music and the golden era of album rock the author is sometimes at odds with his sensitivities to gender, race...
A handwritten letter from United States President Donald Trump was delivered to 90-year-old Akihiro Arimoto, father of North Korean abduction victim Keiko Arimoto (23 at...
(This letter is part of an ongoing series of letters written by Sakie Yokota to her daughter Megumi. To read other parts of the series...
After the breakdown of the United States-North Korea summit in Hanoi in late February, some in Japan observed that a breakthrough might come on the...
Japan entered 2019 without having achieved any progress in bringing home Megumi Yokota and the other Japanese abducted by North Korean agents. Megumi was...
The stakes are high in this week's Hanoi summit meeting between United States President Donald Trump and North Korea's Chairman Kim Jong Un. Much attention...
United States President Donald Trump plans to meet with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in late February. While joking in his Twitter...
(First of Three Parts) What would bring together Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and world-class violinist Ryu Goto? Specifically, what would two men of...
A climactic battle is coming for rescuing Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. In the first ever United States-North Korea summit in June 2018,...
The powerful voices of the victims of North Korea’s four decades of human rights abuses rang clearly in Iino Hall in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, on Saturday,...
Takuya Yokota’s eyes were damp as he took the podium in a Reitaku University auditorium on Saturday, November 17. Yokota was at Reitaku —...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced bilateral relations with China are “shifting from competition to collaboration” during his recent talks with Chinese President Xi...