Nippon.com: Your Doorway to Japan

Japan’s Drifting Education System

Nippon × Fashion: Local Looks

: Forging New Links Through Literature
2012.03.30

: Elpida and the Failure of Japan Inc.
2012.05.08

: Forum 2000 (Part II)
2012.05.17

: Enjoying Life One Day at a Time: A Grandma and Her Cat (Photos)
2012.05.17

Editors' choices

: How to Safeguard Japan In the Years Ahead: National Security and the Japan-US AllianceJapan’s Defense Policy and the Future of the Japan-US Alliance
The Future of Sino-Japanese Competition at Sea
The Okinawa “Base Problem” Today
The Deepening of the Japan-US Alliance

: Nippon × Fashion 2012Opening Up Japanese Fashion
An Explorer of Japanese Style
Kōenji’s Kitakore Building
How Can Harajuku Get Its Groove Back?
Models Just Like Us
Rising Stars in the Fashion World

Elpida and the Failure of Japan Inc.

Inoue Kōki

With Elpida Memory filing for bankruptcy in February of this year, Japan has essentially abandoned the DRAM (dynamic random access memory) semiconductor business that helped power the growth of the nation’s big electronics firms in the 1980s. What lessons does the Elpida debacle offer for Japanese industrial policy going forward?

(More)

: Forum 2000 (Part II) The Forum 2000 is held in Prague every year. In 2011, the subject of the conference was “Democracy and the Rule of Law.” Nippon.com talked to Fujiwara Kiichi, a professor of international politics at the University of Tokyo, who gave a keynote address on “The Rule of Law in Asia” during the panel discussions.
(More)

Enjoying Life One Day at a Time: A Grandma and Her Cat (Photos)

Ihara Miyoko (Photographer)

Ihara Misao lives a peaceful life in the countryside with her beloved cat, Fukumaru. Her granddaughter Miyoko recently published a charming collection of photographs of the two inseparable friends that has struck a chord with people all over Japan.

(More)

Miyajima: The Wonders of Japan’s Island Shrine (360˚ Panorama)

Somese Naoto

One of the most famous sites in all of Japan, the floating shrine of Itsukushima Jinja juts out into the sea from the small island of Miyajima. The shrine is surrounded by the calm waters of the Seto Inland Sea, and in the fall its mountains are ablaze with a mass of reds and yellows. This 360˚ panorama tour gives a taste of one of Japan’s most glorious fusions of nature and culture.

(More)

Forging New Links Through Literature

(More)