Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
The Pacific War officially came to a close on August 15, 1945, but even today the images and sound clips of the Showa Emperor announcing on...
(First of two parts) Kon-chiki-chin. Kon-chiki-chin. The sounds of the rhythmic ohayashi music heard throughout the city of Kyoto accentuates the Gion Festival, the...
Every August, Japan holds a series of remembrances, including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and the August 15th end-of-war announcement. But one date...
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, which is called “VJ (Victory over Japan) Day” in...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
In this instalment of the series, I cycle from the onsen town of Beppu to the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima. Beppu is fantastic!!...
The coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point in the history of the world that requires us to change our mindset, according to internationally...
At the end of February, the biggest kimono exhibition to be held outside Japan opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Kimono: From...
The “Year of the Rat” has certainly gotten off to an inauspicious start, what with the COVID-19 pandemic, trade wars, a shaky global economy,...
It is broad daylight when I and a handful of acquaintances duck into a nondescript brick building in a slightly raspy neighborhood. We have arrived...
In the last two months of 2019, two South Korean complaints — allegedly based on the period during which Korea was under Japanese control (1910-1945) —...