United States President Donald Trump dismissed John Bolton on September 10 as the presidential national security adviser. After his predecessor Herbert Raymond McMaster’s...
Olympics to Whip Up Anti-Japanese Feeling Japan-bashing has seemingly become the national pastime in Seoul in recent years, but the South Korean public remains...
A wholesale reshuffle of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet, announced on September 11, produced a lineup made up of staunch Abe allies and...
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...
In recent times, there have been many cases of war loot being repatriated to the original owners, their descendants, or country of origin. French...
(Second of Two Parts) Read Part 1 at this link. The second installment of this two-part report on the remnants of Tokyo’s extensive...
Former Abe Cabinet advisor Koko Kato left the Prime Minister's Office and took on new duties as the executive director of the NPO, the...
As feared earlier, Japan’s territorial negotiations with Russia have run into rough waters. In November 2018, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President...
I first began thinking about writing this commentary six months ago. In the interim, however, Japan-South Korean relations have plummeted to their lowest levels since...
Last August 15, on the first anniversary in the Reiwa era of the end of the war, and for the first time since his ascension...
The allegedly very large gender gap in Japan, as reported by the World Economic Forum (WEF), is a favorite subject for foreign pundits. ...
When Japanese names are rendered with Latin letters — that is, “romanized” — the given name comes first and the family name comes last. That...