A research team at RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan succeeded in retrieving memories in mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The results were published on the electronic edition of the Na...

  Arguments have surfaced over the pros and cons of the consumption tax increase as Japan witnessed a negative growth of GDP for the October-December period of 2015. On February 26th, Chief Cabin...

  Libertarians Run Their Own Lives Q: What made you interested in Libertarianism? A: My path to liberty came from these philosophers, I’d say, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard wer...

  Many people know Taiwan for its good food, hot springs, tourist attractions, and pro-Japan sentiments; but very few people know whether Taiwan is a country, or whether it is a part of China. &n...

  The security environment around Japan is facing its greatest hardship yet: national defense policy is insufficient to counteract the neighboring nuclear possessing countries, China and North Ko...

  The two headlines carrying a message that implicitly criticized President Xi Jinping’s tight media control appeared on the front page of the Shenzhen edition of Southern Metropolis Daily ...

  Master Ryuho Okawa was born on July 7th, 1956 in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the prestigious University of Tokyo, he joined a Tokyo-based international trading company. W...

  What kind of an image comes to mind when you hear the “Edo period”? Some people may have an image of a peaceful era when war did not exist for a long time and the performing arts an...

  Super Tuesday 2016, one of the most important days of the presidential nominations contest, was held on March 1st with more than 10 states holding primary elections and caucuses. The result was...

  Is Laughter Really an Affective, Anti-Aging, Miracle Drug? Research teams at both Tokyo University and Chiba University discovered that the health conditions of elderly people who don’t u...