FOREIGN AGENDA

The travelers among us may want to get into an old state of mind to satisfy their wanderlust.

If you don't have a dog to walk, running gets you outside for some fresh air and helps keep your health up at a time when we all need to be healthy.

Have you wondered what it's like to get tested for COVID-19 in Japan? With little Japanese, Joe Oliver learned the hard way after being sent by his doctor to head straight to the hospital.

One thing that's clear about the coronavirus pandemic is that if even one person is left behind, it could prove disastrous to us all.

The incubation period for COVID-19 is long enough that we may not feel the ramifications of our actions for as much as two weeks from now. For those with compromised immune systems, that makes the need for a united response even more pressing.

These days, I find myself singing “Happy Birthday” several times between daybreak and bedtime. As the next birthday in our family is weeks away, I feel a bit silly about it, even though I mostly confine the singing to my head. Since I am ...

When masks and toilet paper went out of stock, I didn’t blink an eye. But when I walked into my local 7-Eleven and couldn’t find an egg salad sandwich, I became concerned. Looking back at how I envisioned my semester abroad in Japan, I never ...

"If you start to feel disoriented, you're getting it," is how one writer describes the process of losing his sight at the age of 29. And after the disorientation comes the process of rebuilding a life in a foreign country.

Police harassment is a fact of life for some people in Japan, which makes the occasional flash of progress all the more rewarding.