Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishA Mainichi Shimbun essay argues the wartime Meiji Constitution turned the emperor into a quasi-religion to bind a new nation — a use of the throne its author says is being revived in today's succession debate.
A cultural anthropologist studying services that recreate the dead with generative AI says Chinese use spread fast under early rules, while Japanese users treat the technology as a kind of altar.
A new film sends a 17-year-old from Saga to Korea to find one person, not to settle a history — and the Mainichi Shimbun's critic argues that is what makes it work.
Keisuke Sato of Sophia University says services that recreate lost relatives raise questions about consent, dignity and who profits — and Japan is answering none of them.
A woman argued her own case without a lawyer and won legal recognition of her son's father, a story the paper's city news desk takes up in its November 6 podcast.
