The Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) regular season will begin on June 19, NPB Commissioner Atsushi Saito announced on Monday. Japanese baseball’s top official...
The foreign media has begun to realize that the COVID-19 situation in Japan is different, but I’m puzzled by all the criticism we’ve faced....
Over the last few days, a feud has surfaced between former comfort women and their core support group called the “Korean Council for Justice...
Various information has been circulating about the health of top North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The most plausible information at present is what...
Photo Credit: Kyodo News, Official Website of Game Discontinued After Accusations of Plagiarism “鬼殺の剣” A company in South Korea producing games for smartphones was accused of...
Few countries in the world have decided to press ahead with elections despite the coronavirus crisis. More than 40 national polls have been postponed. Even...
I have written on this subject time and again, but the phrase “Military Comfort Women” was coined long after the war ended. This terminology has...
Nine years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, 20 countries and regions out of the original 54 continue to restrict the import of Japanese food...
It is broad daylight when I and a handful of acquaintances duck into a nondescript brick building in a slightly raspy neighborhood. We have arrived...
Frankly, it isn’t possible to win in this battle relying solely on the strength of the government. The cooperation of each and every citizen is...
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...
Although Takeshima (Okinoshima Town, Shimane Prefecture) is an inherent part of the territory of Japan, the Republic of Korea has been illegally occupying it....
