The generation that fought the Asia-Pacific War is dying off. With each passing month, obituaries inform that the final soldier from a battalion, division or...
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, which is called “VJ (Victory over Japan) Day” in...
The grandson of a Hiroshima atomic bomb victim who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics has spoken publicly about his grandfather’s life in order to...
August 10 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the National Police Reserve (NPR, Kokka Keisatsu Yobitai), the predecessor of the Japan Ground...
Every year on August 6, people gather at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park in the morning to observe the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack....
Hiroshima has undergone great changes since it became the first city in the world to be destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6,...
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was over and Germany and Japan had...
If one day, China should change color and turn into a superpower, if it should play the tyrant in the world, subject others to...
On June 23, the pro-China president of the Republic of Kiribati, Taneti Maamau, was re-elected. Maamau had suddenly switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China in September 2019 — news...
I recently reread a short column by the late Washington Post humorist Art Buchwald, entitled “Who Discovered Columbus?” It was published in his 1977 book...
Okinawa’s oldest English language magazine, This Week on Okinawa, celebrated its 65th anniversary in June. One of the oldest English language publications in postwar Japan, it...
Among other things, leaflets the South Korean government distributed to UNESCO with the aim of discrediting Japan, and using photos of Japanese workers in Hokkaido, with...
