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During my recent visit to The Kyoto Shimbun, I descended the dimly lit stairs of the newspaper company’s building into the basement. There, a...
Eighteen years following the bilateral agreement between Japan and the United States, the relocation process for U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa...
The ruling coalition has compiled its outline for next fiscal year’s tax reforms. The ruling camp’s tax negotiations with the Democratic Party for...
In 1908, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), a poet born in Iwate Prefecture, sent a brush-written “nengajo” (New Year’s greeting card) to the...
The Asahi Shimbun has lost someone who was arguably its “most faithful” reader and toughest critic. Tsuneo Watanabe, who headed The Yomiuri...
The Cabinet Office’s panel of experts has compiled a draft final report on the future of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). To ensure the SCJ...
The Liberal Democratic Party is apparently trying to lay the political groundwork for closing the curtain on the damaging slush fund scandal prior...
I think I was still in elementary school when my father came home one day in a blue Nissan Bluebird he’d just bought secondhand. The vehicle had...
The U.S. author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in...
The industry ministry on Dec. 17 released a draft for the next edition of the Strategic Energy Plan. A policy to minimize Japan’s dependency on...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, lost a combined majority of seats in the Oct. 27 Lower House...