Japan

Michael Mozzhechkov16.12.2024

In an exclusive interview with Nikkei, Chairman of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Ishiguro Noriyuki discusses the prospects for cooperation with the United States, which sets the trends for the development of Japan’s foreign economic activity. N. Ishiguro, who is on a business visit to New York, confirmed that JETRO’s representative offices in the […]

Alexander Palladin07.12.2024

In 1982, Charles Higham’s book “The Untold Story of Errol Flynn” was published in the United States. Sent to print on the eve of yet another anniversary of the Japanese attack on the main base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, it was dedicated to Errol Flynn, Hollywood actor of Australian origin and […]

Alexander Palladin29.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 and Part 2. In Chemulpo Jack London found out that the war he was supposed to cover had begun a week before and that on its very first day after a brief battle with a Japanese squadron, Russian sailors instead of surrending sank their […]

Egor Sennikov25.11.2024

In Manchukuo, the Japanese were creating a completely new state that was theoretically independent, meaning that there were no restrictions on the policies the new state could pursue. Many university graduates in Japan, despite being opposed to the social system that existed in Japan itself, went to work in Manchukuo, believing that they could carry […]

Yuri Chekalin24.11.2024

MUFG Bank has fired an employee for allegedly stealing assets worth between 1 billion and 2 billion yen from safe deposit boxes of some 60 customers in Tokyo, the Japanese megabank said. The worker was dismissed on Nov 14 after admitting to stealing the assets at two branches from April 2020 to October this year. […]

Alexander Palladin22.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 Jack London managed to get a ticket on a Japanese steamship to Korea only in Moji. Before boarding it, he decided to wander around the city and take pictures, but was arrested by local police who mistook him for a Russian spy. On February […]

Alexander Palladin19.11.2024

120 years ago, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and by the end of February, 1904, some 50 foreign correspondents, mainly English and American, arrived in Japan. Among them was Jack London, one of the most popular foreign writers in Russia, where his novels and stories were printed in more than 77 million copies. At school […]

Yuri Chekalin13.11.2024

Yoshiko Okada is a graceful and refined beauty with an unyielding character who escaped from Japan to the Soviet Union. A Moscow radio announcer, a star of many films and plays, an idol of millions of viewers. This extraordinary woman was born on April 14, 1902 in Hiroshima to a journalist’s family. Since childhood, she […]

Lada Zhinova28.10.2024

December 1945. Japan. The war has just ended. In the center of Tokyo, in the half-destroyed building of the Yurakuza Theater, the first post-war premiere is Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The play was last shown in 1937. Then it was directed by Aoyama Sugisaku, who 8 years later would return to Chekhov again, gathering all […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky22.09.2024

The meeting of the leaders of the United States, India, Japan and Australia will be held in Wilmington, Delaware. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have already arrived in Wilmington. Joe Biden will host his Quad partners at his home. The general meeting and gala […]

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Japan

Trump’s Economic Program is the Main Focus of Japanese Capital

The Unknown Role of Errol Flynn

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 3

Build Where We Can, Not Where We Want

MUFG Bank Fires Worker for Stealing Over ¥1 Bil from Customers

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 2

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought

Tokyo Rose of Russia

Chekhov and Emptiness: Why Do the Japanese Love to Read and Stage Chekhov?

QUAD Summit to Be Held Ahead of UN General Assembly

What Beliefs Does the Orthodox Church Have About Birth Control?

On the Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev

Administrative Capitalism or a Fairy Tale from the Ogonyok Magazine that Turned into a Pumpkin

Photographs for the Tsar