“The video in question was up for almost a month, and the Foreign Ministry didn’t even notice. We are losing the information war,” said one Diet...
Japan should be proud of its past. The truth is that when Japan did have a military, it used it for the noblest purpose of all...
She has inspired countless professional Japanese women, and her face is about to go on Japan’s new 5,000 yen note. Here’s her story.
The Columbia University historian draws on the records in a fascinating read tackling common beliefs about POWs in WWII.
The two countries have helped each other through many difficult times, from earthquakes to saving Jews in WWII and Tsarist Russia’s deportation of Polish orphans to...
April 25 is a date of profound significance for the Australian and New Zealand nations, but one that shares strong interconnections with both Turkey and Japan.
There was no forced labor. South Koreans volunteered to go to the Japanese home islands in droves for better pay and plentiful job opportunities.
Veterans who were repatriated after the war couldn't have imagined that their country would have become so peaceful and prosperous, or its Self-Defense Force so widely...
War leaves its mark, but for how many generations can racism be excused? The timing of Facebook’s policy banning the use of a pejorative term seems...
South Korea funded a foundation to promote its anti-Japan historical perspective, and Japan should counter this with its own research institute.
The secret Daijosai ritual remains a mystery, but a new theory has been proposed that links Japan’s oldest traditions to a long cultural corridor through Eurasia.
Its main bath house has been the inspiration for the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away (2001). But despite a famous pedigree, the onsen still feels like...