On the JET Program, I worked at an education center in Japan, where I led teacher training sessions, wrote and edited a book on teaching communicative English, and taught in the classroom with a ...

Ranald MacDonald, the son of a Chinook chief and a Scottish settler, staged a shipwreck near Rishiri Island to gain entry into Japan — then, a closed country under isolationist policies. Despite being ...

2004, like the year before, was a tumultuous year for Japan-China relations. Various incidents heightened tensions, beginning with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine and ...