Editors' PicksEducation & Study AbroadScience & Technology

Bringing the Power of Computing to the Arts and Humanities

Programming computers to think and respond like human beings, only faster, is already changing industries...
Nov 28, 2018VIEW
Editors' PicksEducation & Study AbroadScience & Technology

Charles Elachi’s Exploration of the Planets Began in Lebanon and Passed through Pasadena

Rayak in 1959 was a transportation hub where Lebanon’s main rail lines crossed and airplanes flew in and ...
Nov 27, 2018VIEW
Arts & Culture

Life Lesson from Animator Floyd Norman: Don’t Take “No” for an Answer

The Walt Disney Company hired Floyd Norman as an animator in 1956, making him the first African American ...
Nov 7, 2018VIEW
Editors' PicksSports

A Baseball First: What Was Historic about the 2018 World Series?

Baseball fans across the United States and around the world witnessed history in the World Series between...
Nov 2, 2018VIEW
Editors' PicksPolitics

What Are Midterm Elections, and Why Are They Important?

U.S. presidential elections are big news worldwide every four years. But what happens in the midterm elec...
Oct 22, 2018VIEW
TravelArts & Culture

Living History Museums Bring the Past to Life

Imagine the year 1898 in rural Nebraska — a horse-drawn carriage drives down Main Street, an arithmetic t...
Oct 16, 2018VIEW
BusinessFood

Try Something New at “Taste of America 2018”

The dog days of summer are finally over, and people are starting to get their appetites back. In Japan, a...
Sep 26, 2018VIEW
Editors' PicksEducation & Study Abroad

“Teach English Now!” – My Experience at an English Education Conference in the U.S.

I participated in a conference on English education called “Teach English Now!” at Arizona State Universi...
Sep 11, 2018VIEW
Editors' PicksBusinessEducation & Study Abroad

Advice on Studying Abroad: Kenichi Nonomura, Director of Business Design and Development at IDEO Tokyo

In 2005, Kenichi Nonomura, then fresh out of university, joined Toyota’s Sales & Marketing Division a...
Aug 27, 2018VIEW
Travel

The National Park Service: America’s Best Idea

“National parks are the best idea we ever had,” said writer and historian Wallace Stegner in 1983. “Absol...
Aug 23, 2018VIEW
Business

Robust U.S. economy beckons foreign firms

Four trillion dollars. That’s how much foreign businesses invested in the United States in 2017. That’s a...
Aug 22, 2018VIEW
Arts & Culture

The Queen of Soul: An Appreciation

The National Museum of African American History and Culture mourns the passing of Aretha Franklin, the Qu...
Aug 22, 2018VIEW
Sports

Ambassador Hagerty Pitches Sports Diplomacy in Yokohama

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty made a special appearance on the baseball diamond at Yokohama Stadi...
Jun 5, 2018VIEW
Editors' PicksSocial Issues

The Economic Benefits of Meaningful Employment for People with Disabilities

After suffering a life-threatening accident and finding out she had epilepsy, Joyce Bender developed a pa...
May 24, 2018VIEW
SportsU.S.-Japan Relations

Competition and Camaraderie Play Equal Parts in Tomodachi Bowl

Harry Cheng was not going to pass up this chance. He had lived at Yokosuka Naval Base all his life, playe...
Mar 22, 2018VIEW
TravelArts & Culture

Tennessee - America at Its Best

With its majestic Great Smoky Mountains, legendary musical landmarks, and exceptional Southern hospitalit...
Feb 2, 2018VIEW
U.S.-Japan Relations

Ambassador Hagerty – A Tennessee Businessman with Strong Ties to Japan

In August 2017, William F. “Bill” Hagerty IV arrived in Tokyo to assume his official role as United State...
Dec 29, 2017VIEW
Education & Study Abroad

Teaching English in Japan Shapes Lives, Including the Teachers’

As an American college student, Edward Hans didn’t realize that randomly selecting Japanese to fulfill a ...
Dec 26, 2017VIEW
Editors' PicksU.S.-Japan RelationsSocial Issues

Tokyo Welcomes Ivanka Trump

In advance of the President’s historic trip to Asia, Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump arrived in Jap...
Nov 24, 2017VIEW

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