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The doorbell rang and the resident, an old woman, opened the door to find two middle-aged men standing there. They introduced themselves as detectives...
Two Chinese scholars who had been teaching at universities in Japan for many years recently went missing within months of each other after returning...
What will Japan do when it is faced with the risk of war? In 1951, before the United States ended its occupation of Japan, Washington demanded that...
Reforms aimed at improving the working conditions of doctors took effect this month. The new regulations set an overtime limit for employed doctors...
Tomoko Inotsume, the protagonist of “Tora ni Tsubasa” (The Tiger and Her Wings) is modeled on one of the first three female lawyers in Japan....
The Liberal Democratic Party’s proposal to amend the law regulating political funds suggests that the ruling party does not clearly understand the...
Yuko Shirakawa remembers being taken by surprise when she was asked this question: “Have you never thought of becoming a doctor?” “Now that you...
“The Ministry for the Future” is a 2020 climate fiction (“cli-fi”) by U.S. science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The titular ministry...
The government has released the results of its inspections into its own fund projects and its measures for revising the state fund system. That...
German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lived a rigidly structured life. He rose at 4:55 in the morning, all year-round. His post-lecture daily...
Two Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) helicopters, carrying a total of eight crew members, crashed into the Pacific Ocean east of Torishima island,...
In “R Is for Rocket,” a collection of science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), there is a tale called “The Fog Horn.” It...
It has been nearly five months since systematic and long-running operations to amass secret funds by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s largest...
A proposal to enhance the state’s power during emergencies could lead to government overreach and erosion of local autonomy. Why is it necessary to...
I am reeling from the sheer scale of the “largest election in the world” that started in India on April 19 and will continue until June 1. The...
Recent rulings by district courts in Osaka, Kumamoto, and now Niigata, underscored the grim reality that many victims of Minamata disease still, for...
What is realism in cinema? I have continued to wonder since I saw “Oppenheimer,” a biopic of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
“A Fairly Honourable Defeat” is a novel published in 1970 by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), one of the most esteemed authors in postwar Britain. One of...
The new company that has taken over the talent management business from the former Johnny & Associates Inc. (now Smile-Up Inc.), which has been...
The dark sky flared with light again and again as numerous flying objects streaked across it. From the night of April 13 to the following morning,...
The public sector alone is not capable of providing ample support to people affected by a disaster. It is also essential, so the argument goes, to...
Tokyo’s used bookshop district of Jinbocho is a haven for wealthy Chinese intellectuals trying to gauge Japanese sentiment toward China after...
There are 10 haiku poems that unsettle me every time I read them. The author, whose pen name was Fuko (literally “No light”), was a death row...
Iran’s unprecedented direct attack on Israeli soil has raised profound concern about the possibility of a cycle of escalating mutual retaliation...
With less than a year to go before the opening of the Osaka Kansai Expo, construction vehicles ply the field and building work is in progress on the...
“Youth is wasted on the young.” This famous quote from Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw was used by Mariko Hayashi, the chairperson of the board...
A couple of troubling recent episodes stoked suspicions that the Self-Defense Forces, which came into being with the pacifist postwar Constitution,...
Author Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (1924-1994) preferred levity over gravity. In his collection of essays titled “Keihaku no Susume” (In praise of...
The recent record highs set by the Nikkei 225 index have been tied to references about the asset-inflated bubble economy of the mid-1980s, when...
In 1912, the final year of the Meiji Era that began in 1868, it is said that vehement opposition was raised when statesman Yukio “Gakudo” Ozaki...
Fresh strategic initiatives to further expand and upgrade the security alliance between Japan and the United States featured prominently in the April...
“Why did you become a newspaper reporter?” I was asked this question often in my younger days, probably because I just didn’t look the type. Now...
When a disaster occurs, knowing the locations where evacuees have taken refuge and their situations is the foundation for policy efforts to provide...
At this year’s Miss Japan contest, Ukrainian-born Karolina Shiino was selected as the Grand Prix winner, causing an uproar on social networking...
Two decades have passed since Japan incorporated its national universities into semi-public administrative bodies in 2004. The measure was put into...
South Koreans often say “faitin.” A corruption of the English “fighting” that means “keep it up” or “we can do it,” the word is...
Japan and Taiwan both have a history of learning from numerous and diverse natural disasters and building affluent societies by drawing on the lessons...
“How did you get here? I heard all the roads to Gwangju are blocked,” a local reporter asks a German journalist in a South Korean city where...
“Bura Tamori Guide." Recently, I've noticed scholars in geology and geography using this term on their business cards and in their introductions....
“Why didn’t you knock on the sides of the tank? Why didn’t you bang the sides of the tank? Why? Why? Why?” The Palestinian writer Ghassan...
The rapid spread of generative artificial intelligence poses a wide spectrum of risks to society, and the government is working to develop effective...
When you picture a timeline of Japanese history, which side is the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) on? Is it right or left?...
Shizuoka Governor Heita Kawakatsu abruptly announced his resignation after giving a speech that insulted farmers, ranchers and factory workers. ...
What is the allure of unfinished works of art? Gifted architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) started building the church of the Sagrada Familia in 1883....
My image of the prototypical Japanese military officers who were born during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) is that of taciturn men who lead others with...
A system that allows judges lacking qualifications to be dismissed based on public will could endanger the independence of the judiciary. The...
Japan and Australia could potentially collaborate in areas such as victim assistance as a preliminary stage before joining the Treaty on the...
Until about 40 years ago, it was a daily task of rookie reporters at The Asahi Shimbun’s local branch offices to take turns going to the train...
This is the first Diet session since a new phase of land reclamation work began almost three months ago in Oura Bay in the Henoko district of Nago,...
Around this time every year, I look forward to Suntory Holdings Ltd.’s newspaper ad. I saw it in the April 1 edition of The Asahi Shimbun, albeit...
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