"A Passion for Japan" is an impressive anthology of 31 narratives detailing how the contributors transcended culture shock and came to call Japan home.
The often quoted "kill-all order" of Allied prisoners of war from the journal of the Taiwan POW camp headquarters, was nothing of the sort.
Xi Jinping should remember his own words in 2014 and the experience of army strongman Yuan Shikai before pursuing his quest for lifetime leadership.
This charming book delves into Japanese culture through the lives of the characters who inhabit the island and their nearly one hundred years of recollections.
Some in the West find it convenient to photoshop the Russians out of WWII while skewing the data to make the Japanese look bad. A look...
Grossly exaggerated claims concerning the Nanjing Massacre and comfort woman controversies are faltering, and not due to lack of evidence alone.
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Elon Musk sent out a tweet provoking a renewed conversation. Using his reasoning, all of humankind is at risk. Now let’s brainstorm some possible solutions.
The Columbia University historian draws on the records in a fascinating read tackling common beliefs about POWs in WWII.
April 25 is a date of profound significance for the Australian and New Zealand nations, but one that shares strong interconnections with both Turkey and Japan.
War leaves its mark, but for how many generations can racism be excused? The timing of Facebook’s policy banning the use of a pejorative term seems...
They depict Japanese brutality as being in a league of its own, thus diminishing the crimes of the West and characterizing the Western nations as the...