He took a steamship from Marseilles and along the way in Egypt, he met an Indian man who recognized his illness immediately and told him...
August 10 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the National Police Reserve (NPR, Kokka Keisatsu Yobitai), the predecessor of the Japan Ground...
As readers who have lived here for any length of time will recognize, Japan has been slow to introduce restrictions on smoking. For example, smoking...
Yesterday it was reported that Chinese ships have been present in the contiguous zone outside Japan’s territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands for 100 days straight,...
We noted with pleasant surprise the announcement of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Friday, July 17, of the initial group of Japanese...
Okinawa’s oldest English language magazine, This Week on Okinawa, celebrated its 65th anniversary in June. One of the oldest English language publications in postwar Japan, it...
The recently-released memoirs of United States President Donald J. Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton is causing a major storm, like other tell-all...
History is like a series of buoys marking the way through a vast ocean. The buoys are events, facts, things as they really happened in...
