Japan and China ended 2025 with relations in bad shape. And tensions in the East China Sea show little sign of easing. In this episode of Japan Today Spotlight, we examine the long-running dispute ...

Lying between China's northeastern Taiwan island and Japan's southwestern Kyushu are the Ryukyu Islands, an arc-shaped archipelago in the western Pacific. Once known as the "Bridge of Ten Thousand ...

Japan has reacted sharply, attacking Chinese diplomats for urging Japan to end discrimination against native Ryukyuans. Amid this controversy, we spoke directly with a Ryukyuan to hear how the ...

Traditional performing arts of the Ainu (indigenous people of northern Japan) can be seen at museums and culture centers in Hokkaido. Image: kata716/Pixta MATSUE When I teach basic intercultural ...

This year’s edition of the Aichi Triennale, the largest recurring contemporary art exhibition in Japan, is titled A Time Between Ashes and Roses and features works by around 60 artists and groups from ...

The Japanese people are one of the most important populations for studying the origin and diversification of East Asian populations. As an island population, the Japanese’s path of migration is a long ...

In the beginning, there was water. Not still water, but moving—swelling, spinning, restless. From the first ripple came form. From form, came gods. And from gods, came islands. Across the Japanese ...

ONE of the unresolved territorial questions growing out of the Second World War is to determine what is to be done with a chain of rugged, storm-swept and overpopulated islands in the Western Pacific ...