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...
The President of South Korea Moon Jae In made some striking promises during his big televised speech to mark Liberation Day on August 15. ...
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...
They say, you can’t choose your neighbors. That applies to all countries, including Japan. In recent times, the island nation of Japan has had to...
On Wednesday, September 18, The Times of London carried one of the most blatantly racist articles I have seen about Japan, and I have seen...
Last August 15, on the first anniversary in the Reiwa era of the end of the war, and for the first time since his ascension...
In the United States, the beginnings of wars are often remembered. Remember the Alamo, Remember the Maine, Remember 9/11 — these are all refrains...
A ceremony held July 31 at the Yushukan Museum within the precincts of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo served to recall the arduous building of...
Thanks to the passionate interest of my two sons in all things pertaining to railroads, I have traveled to isolated freight yards, passed many an...
Spring is officially here! Looking at blooms at the Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, the Meteorological Society has declared that the cherry blossoms are...
In February 2018, just before his summit meeting with President Donald Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid a wreath at the Tomb of the...
