In 2020, there was no escaping the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers and students on academic campuses were no exception. Many international and domestic conferences have been cancelled. Face-to-face communication in closed […]
Educating in Uncertain Times The pandemic kept people contained in homes, unsettled students’ lives, and ratcheted up online education worldwide. Helping students adjust to their new virtual classroom set up, lowering their anxieties, and keeping […]
Economic partnerships between Japan and the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are of strategic importance to Japan’s Asia policy. However, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry […]
Like other developing countries, Indonesia faces high unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. In Japan, despite great demand for unskilled labor created by the reluctance of highly qualified young workers to take blue collar jobs, Japanese […]
Kyoto Review recently talked with Ms. Aoki Reiko about problems faced by migrants and the Japanese laws that affect them. Aoki works with two NGOs in Japan’s Kansai region: Asian People Together, an affiliate of […]
From the end of World War Π until the mid 1980s, the Japanese government did very little to promote the export of Japanese cultural industries and products to the world – especially to East and […]
An Introduction to the Rekidai Hoan The Ryukyu Kingdom (present-day Okinawa) was located at the intersection of the South China Sea and East China Sea facing South China and Kyushu. Long before the Ryukyu Kingdom […]
A published translation from Japanese by the Editorial Office of Rekidai Hoan, Okinawa Archives, Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education, March 2003.) Origin of the Diplomatic Documents of the Ryukyu Kingdom A 444-Year Record (1414-1867) The […]
Three academic institutions in Japan have important holdings of books, journals, magazines, and other printed literature on the Philippines: Sophia University hosts the collection of Filipino historian Mauro Garcia. Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian […]
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