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The late Pope Francis’ funeral is over, and Italy is now said to be buzzing with talk of the upcoming conclave, by which the next leader of the...
It was the so-called “best and brightest” elites, assembled under the presidency of John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), who steered the United States into...
I wonder how many poems have now been dedicated to Akiko Baba, a poetry critic in The Asahi Shimbun’s Asahi Kadan tanka section. As recently as...
Writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born in 1892. In his 1925 autobiographical novella “Daidoji Shinsuke no Hansei” (Shinsuke Daidoji: The Early...
The system of “joryu kishi,” which recognizes women as professional players of shogi, a traditional Japanese board game similar to chess, was...
Faced with a rapidly falling birthrate and aging population, local governments are opening up to foreign workers to fill labor shortages. In an...