Massive Passover gatherings in Thailand and Nepal cater to backpackers—by the thousands
American bumbling has paradoxically promoted the long-standing U.S. policy goals of greater German and Japanese military engagement. But we should be careful what we wish for.
Long before Pepe the Frog endorsed Trump, Japanese internet users created a new, ‘very online’ far-right political style. But why did it reappear decades later in the U.S.?
Willy Foerster saved Jews fleeing the Nazis by employing them in his Tokyo factory but was framed as a collaborator after the war and has remained largely unknown
What a Japanese cultural ambassador and self-help guru learned from the retirees of West Palm Beach
‘My dream is that 1.5 million Japanese students will visit us and change Japan’
The very private non-Holocaust-related life of Anne Frank: teenage manga girl, tampon-marketer, European traveler, and emblem of the twin evils of war and intolerance—and the Japanese ‘culture of apology’
Why did Benjamin Netanyahu serve dessert to Japan’s prime minister inside a pair of brogues?
Why has the musical been beloved in Japan for 50 years?
Think you know ‘Mayim Mayim’? Think again.
How the search for a singular victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb led back to Buchenwald
The Cinderella story of the tournament was defeated by its heavy favorite, Japan, by a score of 8-3
Tokayer and his wife were sent to Japan by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1967: ‘We went for two years and forgot to come home.’
Israel’s international partnerships continue to flourish, with much of it based on its technological sector
Sae Miyakawa performed at Rio to the tune of Rabbi Nahman of Breslov’s “Kol ha-Olam Kulo”
Mysterious photographs lead to some Japanese who rescued Jews from the Holocaust, with a boat, in secret
Japan’s Imperial Prince Takahito Mikasa—scholar, patron, pacifist, Hebrew-speaker—turns 100 today
Hummus joints and kosher food stands become popular with locals
