Having lost his daughter in the quake-tsunami disaster two years ago, Toshiro Sato, a teacher in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, believes the best disaster prevention is not to forget what happened that fateful day and confront it. “I don’t want to let any more students ...

Freelance journalist Hisao Tanabe is so highly regarded by Myanmar refugees in Japan they call him “Shwe Ba,” after an actor in Burma in the 1950s and ’60s who starred in numerous movies about people fighting those in power on behalf of the oppressed. ...

Japanese-Brazilian Anderson Hyuma Gushi remembers his troubled youth, when he was bullied by classmates at an elementary school as a “foreigner with a Japanese face.” He eventually dropped out of his evening high school classes and became the leader of a group of hot-rodders, ...

A movement is spreading across Japan to train parents to be more Internet-savvy when it comes to protecting their children from harmful sites, after the enactment of a new law this summer. The Diet passed a bill in June aimed at controlling Web sites ...

A Japanese-Brazilian has started publishing a free bimonthly magazine in the 100th year since Japanese started emigrating to Brazil. Mario Makuda, who runs an advertising agency in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, is producing Revista Mais Brasil (Magazine More Brazil) in the hope that Japanese will ...