JCIE in the Media
Explore English-language articles written by or featuring JCIE staff and senior fellows, coverage of JCIE events, and stories written by JCIE’s US-Japan Journalism Fellows. For Japanese language articles click here.
How Japan Pushes Coal on the World
Darius Dixon | POLITICO
August 12, 2015
While the U.S. backs away from its dirtiest power source, its closest ally in Asia is building, selling and financing coal plants worldwide.
Etiquette and Rituals Rule in Japan's Business Culture
Sally Herships | Marketplace
August 11, 2015
At a dinner meeting in Tokyo recently, two Japanese professors, Ryo Sahashi and Satoru Mori, arrived and sat down at their booth. Even though it meant one of them would shortly have to get up to make…
A Toilet for All Techies
Sally Herships | Marketplace
July 29, 2015
There’s really no other way to describe them: The toilets of Japan are fabulous. But most U.S. consumers don’t know there’s a whole wide high-tech toilet world out there. It’s something that has to be…
Does Japan’s Conservative Shinto Religion Support Gay Marriage?
Isaac Stone Fish | Foreign Policy
June 29, 2015
In 1999, a Shinto priest unofficially married two men in a shrine in Kawasaki, an industrial city near Tokyo. Literally “the way of the gods,” Shinto is one of Japan’s major religions, but it does not…
Japan Alone Cannot Guard or Sustain Peace
Isaac Stone Fish | Foreign Policy
June 19, 2015
When one speaks of turmoil on the Korean Peninsula, it’s usually in reference to North Korea, not South Korea. But Itsunori Onodera, who stepped down as Japan’s defense minister in September 2014, has…
Caregiver Trainee Program Coming Up Short, but Options on Table also Daunting
Tomohiro Osaki | Japan Times
April 19, 2015
By Tomohiro Osaki In an interview with JCIE’s managing director Toshihiro Menju, the role of foreign labor in Japan’s nursing care industry is discussed, along with how a promotion of long-term settle…