Since the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, the International Olympic Committee has been faced with the arduous task...
The near-permanence of the state of flux and transformation which surrounds the Indo-Pacific region brings its own set of opportunities and challenges. For these,...
A new attraction featuring characters and stories of the Harry Potter novel and film will be built on the site of “Toshimaen,” the Seibu...
The 2020 sakura season in Japan has begun, and it is time to begin planning your own hanami blossom-viewing excursions. Here is the schedule for...
Thursday's Cafe: Fragrant and Heartwarming 'Moksha Chai' If there was only one coffee shop I could go to for a while, the Aroma Café...
Flawed people, troubled times. Conflict in the street, conflict in the soul. Dark secrets unravel in the neon-splattered backstreets of Soho (London) and Shibuya...
Japanese defense initiatives can seem like Rorschach tests — meaning very different things to different people. Take Tokyo’s recent announcement that it would buy...
Despite the 1965 Agreement and payments to mobilized laborers, anti-Japan activists, including Japanese lawyers and extremist labor union members, have traveled to South Korea since the...
In their 1965 treaty, claims settlement agreement and restoration of diplomatic relations, South Korea called for all compensation from Japan to wartime laborers, to be paid...
The stories told by these statistics reveal the reality of wartime laborer, which differs dramatically from the claims of capture and forced labor, or slave labor,...
The foundation of Japan-South Korea relations was shaken by the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling on wartime laborers in Japan. An explanation of the key terms...
The liquidation of assets of the Japanese companies is precisely a consequence that the 1965 Treaty and Agreement intended to prevent.