Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.

Japan doesn’t hand visitors a list of dos and don’ts, but there are certain expectations associated with tourists. Most are ...

"Foreigner policy" leapt to the forefront of Japanese politics and onto front pages across the country in 2025, propelled by ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On Thursday, the Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This blog post is part of a series entitled Is Japan in Decline?, in which leading ...

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TOKYO -- The world’s first space conversation experiment between a robot and humans is ready to be launched. Developers from the Kirobo project, named after “kibo” or hope in Japanese and “robot,” ...

NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 7 — On October 20, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel joined Asia Society Policy Institute Vice President Daniel Russel for a conversation about the past and future of U.S.-Japan ...

A generation ago, Japan was widely admired — and feared — as an economic paragon. Business best-sellers put samurai warriors on their covers, promising to teach you the secrets of Japanese management; ...

On Thursday, the Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security presented Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with its long anticipated report advocating for loosening the restraints on the ...