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VOX POPULI: Ishiba and his deep grasp of Japan’s military actions in China

Author and historian Noboru Kojima made it his life’s work to understand Japan’s wars with China: the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and the...

The Asahi Shimbun

“There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long.”  With that tantalizing preface, the legendary American master of science...

Let’s assume you want to keep a wild owl as a pet. If you intend to be a caring owner and put the bird in an environment that’s similar to its...

When celebrated Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) was in the second or third grade of elementary school, his class was given an...

As the newly elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi had no qualms about selecting those who were instrumental in her...

What is the boundary between the self and that which is not the self? Could that boundary be inconsistent and erratic? This deeply philosophical...