Issues

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Dec 20, 2021

Scholars launch effort to assist peers stuck outside of Japan

by Rochelle Kopp

Japan's border situation and lack of digitized archives continue to cause problems for academics who need access to historical documents.

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Nov 8, 2021

Forty years of empowering women in Japan

by Kathryn Wortley

In the 40 years since its inception, FEW Japan has gone from serving a specific subset of non-Japanese women in the country to broadening its scope to help all women living here.