In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...
On August 15th Emperor Hirohito at last admitted defeat. Meanwhile, Tokyo’s hell that March night remains the greatest man-made loss of human life in the second world war—indeed, in any single ...
March 28, 1885 was an important day in the life of the region that, more than seven decades later, would become the Gold ...
There’s a whole lot of false consciousness running around. How to battle against it?  It’s a matter of public health.  It’s ...
With changing times and changing political leadership, more and more Japanese-era buildings are being restored and reopened ...
Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito’s public ... novels and in real life, rebellious married women revenged ...
The film provides a rare glimpse into the life of ethnic Koreans in Japan as well as life in ... found shooting pachinko balls with a homemade slingshot aiming at Emperor Hirohito. While stationed in ...