Highlighting JAPAN

Japan's World Cup winning soccer team kicks off this month's special feature on Japanese women achieving big things overseas.

Amputee athlete Maya Nakanishi is targeting world records in three events in addition to winning medals at the 2012 London Paralympics.

Eighty-four-year-old Akiko Sudo has been providing medical assistance in Haiti for over thirty years.

Azusa Chiba, a development worker with UNOPS, is playing a part in the remarkable changes taking place in the newly established Republic of South Sudan.

Osamu Sawaji speaks with one the partners in leading architect group SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, about the firm's work.

A Q&A with Sakie T. Fukushima, president of recruitment consultants G&S Global Advisors and vice chair of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

The Japanese-Australian Environmental Conservation Program was held on the UN World Heritage Site of Yakushima island in Kagoshima Prefecture in September.

Dr. Masaru Tanaka, chief research fellow at the International Institute for Advanced Studies, explain his vision for the new field of H2O Studies.

Forestry Agency Director General Yoshitsugu Minagawa talks with Osamu Sawaji about the current state of the forests in Japan and around the world.