News

Japan views Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a failure of global deterrence – and a wake-up call. On Yonaguni island, just ...
Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.
The Tokyo District Court has ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to investigate the identity of the biological parents ...
Every month at the Old Stone House, in Brooklyn, citizens are invited to find consolation in troubled times by writing out ...
Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク) is Japan’s longest and much-needed string of national holidays starting from April 29 through early ...
The certainty of our constitutional protections seems to be fading in and out like the photograph of Marty McFly’s siblings ...
Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...
President Richard Nixon tried to fire the Department of Justice prosecutor leading an investigation into the president’s involvement in wiretapping the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters.
By dusting off this disgraced law and using it to deny people their rights, President Donald Trump seeks to erase the moral ...
"These include the Japan-Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement ... A similar accord was signed by the Philippines and Australia in 2007. The 1987 Philippine Constitution prohibits foreign troops ...
“It is more important than ever to further heighten momentum toward constitutional revision,” Kishida said in the message on May 3, Japan’s Constitution Day. “A stance for revising parts ...