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...
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. This...
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...
On July 2, South Korean National Assemblyman Song Young Gil, who chairs the assembly’s Foreign Policy and Unification Committee, held a press conference to announce...
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...
We are almost at the beginning of the yukata season. One of the joys of the Japanese summer for me is seeing all the people...
Over the last few days, a feud has surfaced between former comfort women and their core support group called the "Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance...
On December 25, 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Education disapproved Jiyusha Publishing’s junior high school history textbook prepared by the Japanese Society for History Textbook...
It’s important to look for the latest trends and most fashionable events. But sometimes we forget to appreciate those things which are just under...
The fire crackles in the chilly winter air and they gather around the warm embers of the flame. Who are “they,” you ask? Monkeys! ...
Sometimes, traditions have hidden histories to uncover. Other times, the origins can be surprisingly obvious and yet reveal how a traditional celebration has survived...
Despite the 1965 Agreement and payments to mobilized laborers, anti-Japan activists, including Japanese lawyers and extremist labor union members, have traveled to South Korea since the...