Wandering the streets of Tokyo’s Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; ...

Therefore, Japan must uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter including peaceful dispute resolution, avoid ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. Yet when a mega-quake hit Japan last March, sparking a huge tsunami, it was ...

SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When professional boxer and model Tomomi Takano heard that children in Japan's Fukushima prefecture were becoming unfit and overweight as the 2011 nuclear ...

This blog has looked at lessons education policymakers can learn from high–performing nations in Asia. Today I want to share an example for classroom teachers. Part of the definition of global ...

Policy decisions by central banks – such as an accommodative monetary policy which is designed to stimulate economic growth by lowering short-term interest rates to make borrowing money less expensive ...

There is a great deal to remember this week, the one year anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis. Few events in recent history have combined to such an intense ...

There are "innovators" such as those who figure out a new topping for ice cream and then there are major innovators, who help substantially change entire fields and the world for the better. Each year ...

As the United States struggles to find a safe, smart, consistent way to reopen, it might want to watch what’s happening right now in Japan. In many ways, Japan’s experience of the coronavirus pandemic ...

An aerial view of Oshima-Mura, Japan, after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the area in March 2011. (TNS) — In the wake of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, ...