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The author of a new book about gender in Japan sets aside Western stereotypes and talks about how ordinary women are fueling a feminist revolution that's transforming the country.
By Corrie Pikul
January 17, 2007
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A General Motors exec worries that Democrats might tighten fuel-economy standards. But the scarier prospect is if they don't.
By Andrew Leonard
January 9, 2007
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At my childhood kitchen table, in broken English and Japanese, my father taught me about family, the past and the poignant pleasures of food.
By Linda Furiya
January 2, 2007
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Japanese copyright holders demand action! It's all about the cartoons.
By Andrew Leonard
December 20, 2006
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Ice Capades in Asia: Big-time brawl.
By David Puner
December 4, 2006
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His novel about a war crimes trial suggests he'll join Dodd and Leahy's efforts to repair the constitutional vandalism wreaked by the Military Commissions Act.
By Joe Conason
November 17, 2006
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Anonymous baby hatches save the lives of unwanted infants -- but what about those infants' desperate mothers?
By Carol Lloyd
November 9, 2006
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A nonbinding House resolution would prod the Japanese government on past human rights violations.
By Page Rockwell
September 14, 2006
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The surrealist stunners in Haruki Murakami's new story collection take you to the creepy, sublime places that no author does better.
By Laura Miller
September 14, 2006
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Prelude to a global slowdown? Machinery orders plummet in Japan
By Andrew Leonard
September 11, 2006
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From 17th century haikus to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, writing from this Far East nation reveals an obsession with beauty and discipline.
By Kyoko Mori
August 28, 2006
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More fun with fantasy gaming and the history of Sino-Japanese hostility
By Andrew Leonard
August 24, 2006
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Tokyo hands out pins that identify the expectant.
By Rebecca Traister
August 8, 2006
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Is it time for Japanese graphic novels to make way for India?
By Andrew Leonard
July 13, 2006
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A red sun rising on the wrong dynasty starts an online riot
By Andrew Leonard
July 11, 2006
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Two ultimate fighters. One creamy rich shaving gel.
By K.L.
May 23, 2006
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Convinced of our superiority, Americans keep trying to impose freedom on the rest of the world. It's arrogant, immoral -- and it hasn't worked.
By Chalmers Johnson
May 3, 2006
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Japan wins the world baseball championship of the whole wide world, so take that, Chicago. Plus: Alfonso Soriano, refusenik.
March 21, 2006
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Arakawa's "good, quality performance" is enough for gold as Cohen and Slutskaya fall. Plus: Clutch Swedish curlers.
February 24, 2006
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In Japan, everyone's least favorite Hallmark holiday gets a corporate twist.
By Page Rockwell
February 14, 2006
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As the nation's population shrinks, new measures are being designed to keep women working.
By Rebecca Traister
November 21, 2005
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Historian Richard Rhodes talks about the atomic bombing of Japan 60 years ago, today's global arms race -- and the only way to stop a nuclear attack by terrorists.
By Charles Hawley
August 6, 2005
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Driven by rage at the U.S. occupation, and hoping to split the shaky allied coalition, tribesmen are taking hostages -- and now killing them.
By Saad George Hattar
April 16, 2004
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At last American audiences are being spirited away by the wondrous and subtle visions of Hayao Miyazaki. He's more than an eccentric Japanese fabulist -- he's the greatest animator the movies have ever seen.
By Laura Miller
July 10, 2003
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This switched-on futuristic anime noir is visually stunning -- and it makes a lot more sense than "Spirited Away"!
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 4, 2003
Geisha grrrls
How to lose jobs in Detroit
My father's hunger
"This is not hockey"
Sen. Webb, true conservative?
Hatching a plan
"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"
Destination: Japan
Your moment of yen
Peddling democracy
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Imagining a world without nuclear weapons
Wizard of light and shadow
"Cowboy Bebop: The Movie"
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald