In 1868, during the turbulent Bakumatsu era, two assailants attempted to murder Sir Harry Parkes by hacking their way through the procession with their swords.
If those who promote the comfort women issue want the statues to symbolize peace, then remove the divisive inscriptions and let them be universal symbols.
Kassel University removed its Statue of Peace but Berlin's Mitte District is indecisive. Meanwhile, it misrepresents the historical facts of the comfort women.
Hideo Okamoto is presented as a successful Japanese-American businessman in this haphazard WWII history volume that overlooks facts crucial to its credibility.
These 19th-century trailblazers from Japan, India, and Syria inspired future generations of women to shatter glass ceilings in male-dominated fields.
Out of the hard lessons of Pearl Harbor and through the kindness of one American reader, we learn new stories of the ongoing work of history...
This is the story of one American family's multi-generational friendship with Japan, born out of the immediate postwar experience.
"Today's ruling is about whether freedom of thought is guaranteed in South Korea," said Park Yuha, adding that her fight is not with the living comfort...
The British soldier fought in one of WWII's most vicious battles but the Burma Campaign Society and FVEY countries are helping both sides find reconciliation.
From a good luck charm for children to a talisman for sexual potency and childbirth, the daruma has been many things to many people throughout history.
Finding Japanese history books of the 1990s trapped in debunked postwar theories, author and historian Nobukatsu Fujioka vowed to see the changes through.
Longtime scholar of Korean Peninsula issues, Professor Tsutomu Nishioka analyzes the challenges and progress in relations between Japan and South Korea.