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The Year of the Snake Returns to Japan in 2025. In Western culture, snakes are malevolent and duplicitous creatures, as attested by the serpent’s role in the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Not so in East Asia, where they are considered wise, intuitive and bearers of good luck. In Buddhist […]
このページを 日本語 で読む A year has passed since the devastating Noto Peninsula Earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture, which left around 500 people either dead or missing. The disaster inflicted unprecedented damage on the region, but JAPAN Forward’s visit to the affected areas revealed the remarkable resilience and determination of Ishikawa’s residents. What became clear during our […]
このページを 日本語 で読む In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the amount pledged tripled in one go, jumping to $300 billion USD. This is the amount of climate change funding developed countries must provide to help developing countries counter climate change. So the parties decided at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations […]
このページを 日本語 で読む Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) succeeded in its first experimental removal of one particle (0.7 grams) of nuclear debris fuel from Unit 2 of its disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. This debris resulted from the nuclear accident caused by the massive tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake. Hot uranium […]