Yesterday, we looked at the timeline of how COVID-19 took over the lives of people in Japan. Yet, one might realize that not everything was doom...
In typical Japanese style, the country has trending words of the year and the kanji of the year. We take a look at the single unwelcome...
~JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readership in 2020. We invite you to find what attracted readers to our most popular articles of the...
~The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has set aside ¥137.7 billion JPY ($1.3 billion USD) in subsidies to support companies in Japan that are...
~~ ~How does Japan cope? By avoiding the 3CsーClosed spaces, Crowded places and Close-contact settings~ Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has put the...
The news circulated like wildfire on December 2 when it was announced that the British pharmaceuticals regulator, the MHRA, had decided that the COVID-19 vaccine developed...
Late July reportedly marked the peak of the “second wave” of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Japan. Compared to the earlier state of emergency period,...
Those who have spent too much time with the Japanese print and broadcast media, which echoes (and is echoed by) many Western media, are...
Amid a global resurgence of new coronavirus infections, initiatives to develop therapeutic drugs and vaccines are progressing at a fevered pitch worldwide. There can...
How is Japan getting on in the race towards a vaccine? JAPAN Forward visited leading vaccine research scientist Dr. Ryuichi Morishita on July 6 at his...
The novel coronavirus came into the lives of most people around the world only about six months ago. It has infected more than seven million people...
Although the illumination on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and the Rainbow Bridge has been turned to seven colors from the alert signal of red,...