The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome and Former Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru
NISHIBAYASHI Masuo In December 2017, I was appointed Director of the Japan Cultural Institute in Ro…
Shinto Revisited: Japan’s Hidden Treasure
MATSUNAGA Daisuke In the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan opened its doors to the rest of the worl…
Good and Bad Manners Are No Longer Obvious
AKASAKA Kiyotaka Recently, the situation of manners in the world and in Japan has been drastically c…
The Gender Gap in Religious Perspectives:
World’s Trend and Japan’s Path
UENO Kagefumi According to “the Global Gender Index 2021” reported in late March by the World Econom…
TOKYO 2020, the Olympic Games without Precedent:
An Observation from a Host Country Perspective
OGAWA Gotaro Postponed for one year and amid an acute aggravation of the pandemic situation, the Tok…
My perspective on the results of the “Global Attitudes” Survey on China and the United States
Eiichi Kawahara In June 2021, the Pew Research Center published the results of the “global attitudes…
Known but Barely Understood “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”
Yasuyoshi KomizoFormer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the State of Kuwait …
Why Do the Japanese People Underappreciate the WHO’s Work on Covid-19?
Kiyotaka AKASAKA When the Pew Research Center in the United States conducted an opinion poll in 14 c…
〈160 Years of the US-Japan Relationship〉
Early Encounters between Japan and the United States of America
Shotaro Oshima 160 Years of the US-Japan Relationship: Early Encounters, Wartime and the Present Las…
〈160 Years of the US-Japan Relationship〉
What Really Makes America Great: From a Personal Perspective
Ken Shimanouchi 160 Years of the US-Japan Relationship: Early Encounters, Wartime and the Present La…