THE FOREIGN ELEMENT

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Mar 1, 2021

Environmental activism is at the heart of Nagoya's international community

by Eric Margolis

The search for friendship and community among foreign residents of Nagoya has become intimately tied to environmental education and activism.

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Feb 13, 2021

Why a Japanese man proudly took his wife's last name

by Mai Yoshikawa

Shu Matsuo Post calls himself a feminist, but he wasn't born one. For the first 28 years of his life, he says he never tried to understand what it was like to be a girl or woman in a patriarchal society. He eventually met his ...