Asia-PacificForced sterilisation victims fight to reopen dark chapter of Japan’s pastBy David McNeill
BooksFighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico, edited by Arthur H MitchellBy Frank MacGabhann
CulturePatrick Freyne: Nature programmes don’t tell you animals are duplicitous bastardsBy Patrick Freyne
MusicMicrodisney, Forbidden Fruit, Nick Cave, LCD Soundsystem: the week’s best rock and popBy Tony Clayton-Lea
OpinionFintan O’Toole: Catholic Ireland is now a religious rust belt of half-empty churchesBy Fintan O’Toole
People‘I’m the best estate agent you have – and that’s not me being big-headed’By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
BooksWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981): In praise of older booksBy Julie Parsons
FashionMeghan Markle has brought the five-minute face back into fashion – here’s how to create itBy Laura Kennedy
Fine Art & AntiquesHidden in a bank for 100 years, Irish silver dressing table set is coming homeBy Arminta Wallace
EnvironmentIs this guy I saw on the Burren a lizard or a snake? Readers’ nature queriesBy Ethna Viney
Fine Art & AntiquesSmall but perfect: US collectors’ Irish art that’s back on the marketBy Arminta Wallace
IrelandDecision to return Treaty ports to Free State in 1938 proved ‘completely wrong’By Ronan McGreevy
Fashion‘If it talks like a feminist and supports women like a feminist, then it’s a feminist’By Marian Keyes
Social AffairsCatholic Church failed its own standards in institutions, archbishop saysBy Louise Roseingrave
IrelandVisa outage ‘caused significant disruption for Irish business’By Conor Pope, Mark Hilliard and Louise Roseingrave