THE "Summit Conference" at Geneva threw the limelight on European affairs so strongly that for a while Asia has seemed to be relegated to the background. Yet the Asian theater is currently fraught with grave dangers that threaten the tranquillity of the ...

In 1955, Japanese babies began getting sick. It took a long time — inexcusably long — for the danger to be publicly announced, and as a result, Japan had over ten thousand victims of arsenic poisoning, and over 100 deaths. In late July of 1955, parents ...

After some last-minute political maneuvering, Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan’s prime minister just days before President Donald Trump arrives in the country.

A painting depicting hundreds of Japanese schoolgirls on a commuter train. An exhibition at which visitors are fed curry rice and spaghetti. Performances critiquing the ubiquity of state surveillance. All were made in Japan in the 1960s. In the post-WWII ...

The big moment for which the female half of Japan’s 125 million people has been waiting for is here, and her name is Sanae Takaichi.

Sunday’s parliamentary election in Japan for the lower house of the Diet has resulted in a stunning setback for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). With its ally Komeito, it failed to win a majority of seats for only the third time since the LDP ...