The bombing of the Christian center of Nagasaki illustrates deeply troubling questions about the morality of war and laws designed to protect the innocent.
"Shogun" is not just a slickly-made exotic historical drama. It tells a powerful story about Japan and the West that is to a significant degree based...
Editors Mark Williams, Van C Gessel, and Michihiro Yamane's book profiles 17 19th and 20th century intellectuals who identified as both Japanese and Christian.
Dr Kevin Doak argues that while Japan surpasses the US in social stability, its nationalism remains unstable without guidance from an indigenous constitution.
Predictions are that Abe's murder, driven by the shooter's hatred of the Unification Church, will continue to alter the Japanese media's view of religion.
Pope Francis is set to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities in the world that have suffered atomic bombing, when he comes to...