Despite its relatively low drug abuse figures, the Japanese system is failing to treat addicts.

Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations against powerful men. Then came the backlash.

After I began researching the explosion of ‘cat cafes’ in post-economic bubble Japan, I discovered an entire healing industry devoted to the commodification of intimacy. Listen to a recorded audio version of this article.

Post-Fukushima social movements, the rebirth of history and tacit futures. An interview.

Many visitors stay for a prolonged period, become regular visitors or even completely relocate to Okinawa, as Aihara and Kamoshita did a few years ago.

The South Korea-Japan agreement on Japan’s military sexual slavery was announced on 28 December, 2015, but it ignores the  efforts by the victim-survivors movement to seek justice for their suffering. 

This is an interview with Michel Foucault conducted by H.Uno, translated by R Nakamura for Shûkan posuto and published in August, 1979. In October, this timely if not prophetic text was translated from the French for openDemocracy by Colin Gordon.  

"Question: Is nuclear power good or bad? Answer: No. Some nuclear is good, some is bad. For example, the Govt. should support an IFR."

The Japanese have been bound together by a collective experience of horror since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an experience reawakened by the impact of the Fukushima disaster.

Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun?

It is time activists across the globe extended solidarity to those protesting to prevent the construction of a new military base in Okinawa, who are haunted by their memories.

Japan is on the brink of changing from a pacifist state to one prepared to go to war if necessary. Now, more than ever, we must refocus international scrutiny on the country’s social movements.

Justice for sexual crimes in wartime still remains elusive for many survivors, but it's never too late. From States of Impunity.

Despite Hiroshima's scars, history cruelly reveals one instance after another in which the US elected to maintain the power of nuclear weapons for statecraft, squandering opportunities to de-escalate in favor of building the case for the national security state. 

The self-immolation of a man in central Tokyo last month is the latest act of protest against Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Japanese popular opinion remains committed to a renunciation of militarism. But Japanese elites, under cover of bland excuses and in cooperation with Washington, have set about unravelling this.

India's newly elected prime minister Narendra Modi and Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe enjoy a friendship which signals increasing co-operation and integration of both nations' economic and defense plans in a new regional strategic partnership. 

The Japanese philosophy of gaman - dignified endurance in the face of suffering - perhaps best explains the country's unique response to national catastrophes.

Participation has become a necessary basis for institutional authority in an era of declining social mobility and government retrenchment. It has become a tool for sustaining hierarchies as much as a tool for transcending them. 

From constitutional revisions to education reform, the Japanese government is intent on undoing the country's pacifist fundamentals. 

As New Orleans freezes over our Sunday Comics author reflects upon his personal, ambiguous relationship with ice