How will the rising number of tourists and foreign residents impact Japan's response in disasters, which relies on the calm and generosity of local communities?
Typhoon Lan is set to hit the central island of Honshu, affecting Kobe, Osaka, and Nagoya, among others. Find out about past disruptions and lessons learned.
The US military must take responsibility for its troops and the children born from sexual relations in Japan. Tokyo must also represent its citizens better.
Young craft breweries are revitalizing rural communities in locations of unparalleled beauty, creating new destinations for locals and visitors alike.
South Korea likes to blame Japan for many of the bilateral problems that face the two countries, but first it needs to acknowledge its own harmful...
Military readiness depends on how American military leaders treat their local base employees and Japanese partners, and it needs fixing now.
Japan’s new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, is a compromised man, distrusted by many in public and his party for his family’s “friendship” with China.
Is this nomination for the position of U.S. Ambassador to Japan, as one writer suggested, simply to exile the Chicagoan as far away from D.C. as...
Approximately 1 in 7 houses are empty now on average around the country. Learning about the problem is the first step to revitalizing the communities where...
More than 75 years ago, on one of the islands Japanese and U.S. forces battled over during World War II, a Japanese soldier came upon...
A little more than a week after the so-called “Hagerty Incident” — where presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty was mobbed at Haneda Airport...
We are in the middle of earthquake season now. Yes, there is such a season. At least that is what I call it. Some of...
