On 31 March, Japan’s Immigration Control Bureau revealed the number of people accepted as refugees in 2020. Among 3,936 applications, which was sharply decreased by 62 percent from 2019 due […]
Journalism has the supreme influence on the audience. When a newspaper reports unstable currency rates, it would cause recession as the audience shakes due to the news; once the media […]
This post is a sequel to “Two Weeks in Rojava (Part 1). Please read the part 1 before checking this article. Jarabulus A few days later, I visited the frontline […]
“I have never seen Japanese person here. I think you are the first Japanese journalist to cross this border,” a female officer said. I was at the Iraqi-Syrian border control […]
So-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) abducted two Japanese citizens and released the video demanding Japanese government to pay 200 million dollars ransoms. The majority of Japanese people responded to this unfortunate […]
“Arab Spring isn’t over in Bahrain.” In Bahrain, it is blowing up a strong tempest of anti-government protest every day. Approximately seventy percent of people are Shiite Muslims in Bahrain; […]
Okay, I’m gonna make it clear. The Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. I would like all Japanese people to have their own opinion on it by reading this essay. […]
Who could imagine I went to Palestine this summer? I could not even believe. I did not expect it at all until my parents said “We will travel to France.” […]
Shamsul Khan and Sherko Kirmanj, both Kurdish political analysts, argue on an article titled “Engineering Confederalism for Iraq” that Iraq should apply confederalism to its political structure. They bring some […]
The operation to isolate Raqqa, which is led by Kurdish forces in Syria and supported by the United States, is named “Wrath of Euphrates” and going on with liberating a […]
It is common knowledge in the international affairs that Palestine, especially Gaza Strip and Israel fight against each other regularly and the news reporting them has become like scheduled services […]
Journalism is Not a Crime 