Governmental Parties to Youth: ‘We can be cool too!’
Prime Minister Abe and opposing parties have been vying, sometimes with music, to attract the first-time youth voters to join their sides.
Japan Loves Trump! Banzai!
TOKYO—Japan loves Donald TrumP—so much it wants to hug and kiss him—at least that’s the impression you might get from the Japan Supports Donald Trump For World President 2016 Banzai!…
Japan’s Classic (Misleading) Pro-Whaling Book: “You can’t tell us what to eat!”
Japan’s fishing traditions have long-been one of its most important aspects, surviving hundreds of years mostly on fish as well as obscure seafood such as sea urchins, squids and eels…
Former NYT Chief Explains Japan’s Lack of Journalistic Freedom
Martin Fackler, former Tokyo bureau chief for the New York Times, says Japanese newspapers are too focused on access journalism and getting the scoop before the story can really be…
Kono Makes A Discomforting Statement on The Comfort Women And Japan Diplomacy
The comfort women existed through very wide area through out all of Asia, and this is something which I, myself do acknowledge. We have seen, for example in the case…
Former Prime Minister Murayama Tells Japan’s Leader Abe, “Study Up or Shut Up!”
In that statement that we need to study history and his pointing out that Abe had not read or understood the Potsdam Declaration, Murayama seemed to be saying to his…
Pedophiles, JK, AKB48 and Trolls
It's condescending and sexist attitudes like yours that encourage women and girls to go into the JK Business in the first place, because they are lead to believe that they…
With “The War Bill” Looming, Japan’s Press & Academia Rebel Against Team Abe
Professors Koichi Nakano, Mari Osawa and Manabu Sato visited the FCCJ on Friday to once again explain why more than 95% of political scholars are against this new bill that…
The 70 Year Fallout: A Lament for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Editor’s note: This year it will be 70 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. What is not widely known is that Japan was working on building its own atomic…
Humanities to be Outlawed at Public Universities
The Japanese government has now decided to systematically remove the teaching of humanities and the fine arts at public universities