Paintings on display in a Saitama gallery are renewing memories of a mineral poisoning case in the Meiji Era and the politician who tackled Japan’s first known major environmental disaster. The paintings by Iri and Toshi Maruki, the husband and wife team known for ...

A freelance photojournalist has recorded the individual histories of 70 survivors of the war at home and abroad to show how they acted during wartime and how their experiences affected the rest of their lives. “I wanted to record the testimonies of war survivors ...

A Tokyo museum focusing on wartime sex slavery is holding an exhibition on how Taiwanese women exploited by the Japanese military have struggled to recover from their ordeals. The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, better known as WAM, has collected documents and ...

Freelance journalist Ryuichi Kino started attending press briefings at Tokyo Electric Power Co. shortly after the nuclear crisis erupted at its Fukushima No. 1 complex in March 2011, knowing that it was an event of world significance. “I knew I would regret it if ...

Written half a century ago, a book delving into journalistic issues from the perspective of a news agency editor is continuing to provide precious lessons to contemporary readers about the challenges of the news media. “Editor’s Diary,” first published in the 1960s, shows the ...

A woman has set up a small gallery in her Tokyo home to exhibit mementos of an executed killer and a replica of his prison cell in the hope that it will encourage visitors to consider how similar crimes might be prevented. The items ...

Masazumi Harada was not only a doctor but also a humble individual, who offered sacrificial support to sufferers of Minamata mercury-poisoning disease and learned from them. An exhibition at Kumamoto Gakuen University’s Open Research Center for Minamata Studies in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, shows his ...

For activist lawyer Taketoshi Nakayama, a crusading legal career was almost predestined, having grown up as the son of a human-rights campaigner in a household keenly aware of the injustices faced by marginalized members of Japanese society.

For activist lawyer Taketoshi Nakayama, a crusading legal career was almost predestined, having grown up as the son of a human-rights campaigner in a household keenly aware of the injustices faced by marginalized members of Japanese society. “My father required me to memorize the ...

His obituary was not carried by major media, but Nobuyuki Ogasawara left a distinctive mark on Japanese journalism. Far from being a star journalist, he earned his living and secured his reporting expenses mainly as a writing course instructor at cram schools, but the ...

A documentary that recently began screening chronicles the experiences of Japanese communities hosting nuclear facilities and the high price paid by some of them because of the March 2011 Fukushima meltdown disaster, including farmers and fishermen unable to market their produce because of radioactive ...