Looking past the doom and gloom that banking conglomerate Goldman Sachs has predicted for the Japanese men’s national football team – popularly known as the Samurai Blue – there seems to be a...
If the public thinks the lay judge system is not working, think again. In fact, a study made by the Supreme Court showed that lay judges give out more severe sentences than what public prosecutors...
It was not easy for “Star Trek” actor George Takei to come out of the closet. Fear for his career and what other people would say has prevented him from admitting to the public his real...
While an asset review of the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is originally set for completion by March 2015, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has instructed Health Minister Norihisa...
If there’s still any doubt in the minds of the public that “Abenomics” is working (and there are a lot of doubters), an economics and fiscal policy draft prepared by the government is set to...
A 2-year-old child who died last February after undergoing an operation at the Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital is believed to have been given a sedative that is banned for children,...
With Japan’s announcement last week that it has begun reviewing the accounts of former “comfort women,” a euphemistic term for those forced into sexual labor by the Japanese Imperial Army...
It seems that three years after the nuclear disaster that crippled Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the operator’s problems are far from over. While the problem of...
Cyber security has been a long-time concern for the Japanese government as it continues to be the target of many cyber attacks in the past years. In a report by the Metropolitan Police Department,...
As tensions in the East China and South China Seas continue to escalate, the Group of Seven nations (G7) has expressed concern over the situation in the region. Asia’s largest nation, China, and...
