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The government is considering a flurry of revisions to laws to enhance its policy responses to the latest wave of new coronavirus infections....
While various free trade agreements (FTA) have been struck in Asia, no bilateral deals have been reached between Japan and China or between Japan...
A student nodding off in class and being poked awake by the teacher is a familiar classroom scene. But that’s not the case with online remote...
The word triage, which derives from the French verb "trier" meaning to sort or select, initially applied to wool and coffee beans. Medical triage,...
The political crisis in the United States has raised serious questions about the future of the country’s democratic system, which is on the brink...
Less than a week after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three adjacent prefectures amid surging COVID-19...
In the decisive battles of the Soviet-Japanese border conflict in 1939, known in Japan as the Nomonhan Incident, the hitherto invincible Japanese...
After lengthy negotiations, 15 nations, including Japan, China and South Korea, in November 2020 agreed on the Regional Comprehensive Economic...
"Toshu toron," or televised debates between party leaders in the Diet, allow the heads of ruling and opposition parties to argue their policies as...
There are many Japanese expressions related to time ("jikan"), including "jikan wo kakeru" (take time), "jikan wo mitsukeru" (find time) and "jikan...
The “silent majority” is commonly defined as a large, unspecified group of people within a country or a group who do not publicly express their...