There is a new book out with original source information on Korean comfort women. American Soldiers Witnessed Korean Comfort Women...
No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners is a short 127-page easy-to-read book that provides the reader with a tapestry of engaging experiences of a foreigner living...
Rumor has it that Princeton decided not to create a law school because it thought a trade school would tarnish its scholarly reputation. True or...
Author Richard J. Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has combined his impressive knowledge of Japanese...
There has been a troubling lack of understanding of the comfort women issue. Indeed, given the refusal in many quarters to see the comfort women...
In 1970, the American government returned a collection of 153 paintings that had been deemed problematic to Japan. Technically only on loan, they remain...
China has a long history of distorting its own long history. While civilizations everywhere bend the historical narrative to their own purposes, justifying and even...
The allegedly very large gender gap in Japan, as reported by the World Economic Forum (WEF), is a favorite subject for foreign pundits. ...
In this valentine to Japanese-American maritime relations, author Agawa Naoyuki traces the process by which bitter enemies during World War II developed into friends....
Charles Richardson's Ghost One fine September afternoon in 1862, six years before the Meiji Restoration, a British trader named Charles Richardson rode...
As explained in author Sheila A. Smith’s introduction of her new book, several generations of Japanese leaders have grappled with how to ensure their...
Very few people are not aware of Leo Tolstoy, the genius Russian writer. His works are published in many foreign languages. Indeed, more than...
