History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Nov 21, 2010

Death before dishonor, more rights for Ainu, J.F.K. elected, Swatches hit Japan

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Death chosen before dishonor Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1910 Waka Kato, a handsome girl, living in a house owned by Hanshichi Nakagawa in Aoyama, attempted suicide on Sunday afternoon with Shunji Noda, a young medical student, with whom she had kept up ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Oct 17, 2010

Korean peerage, national census, assasinaton of party leader and sanctions for South Africa

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Oct. 12, 1910 Korean peerage and education We welcome news (from the recently annexed Korea) that the gracious act of our Court in conferring the patent of peerage and other marks of honor on Koreans of noble lineage and distinguished careers ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Sep 19, 2010

Chinese media on Korean annexation, Shinto will survive after man achieves immortality, 9 percent growth, schools must sing Kimigayo

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGOSunday, Sept. 4, 1910 The annexation of Korea and the Chinese press A dispatch from Mukden [present-day Shenyang in Liaoning Province] says that the local Chinese papers have begun to comment upon the annexation. Most of them, like their Shanghai and Peking ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Aug 15, 2010

Japan annexes Korea, apology accepted after 600 years, Osamu Tezuka's first full-length animation

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Aug. 28, 1910 Korea annexation We are reliably informed that the Treaty of Union between Japan and Korea was signed on the 22nd, and that its principal features are as follows: 1. The Emperor of Korea transfers absolutely and entirely ...

History Aug 8, 2010

Kanagawa Allied POW cemetery rites held

by Kazuaki Nagata

To commemorate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Japan during World War II, about 130 people attended the 16th annual memorial service Saturday at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery in Hodogaya, Kanagawa Prefecture, where 1,873 Allied service members are buried. “As a ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Jul 18, 2010

Pirates off Haneda, the advent of Japanese autos, striking miners' dispute, first American pro go player

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Tuesday, July 5, 1910 Pirates off Haneda A band of pirates has recently made frequent appearances off Haneda [15 km South of central Tokyo], and on Thursday, eight of them were seen distributing goods among themselves under the Haneda lighthouse. Twenty-three ...

History Jun 26, 2010

Kishi 'understood' secret nuke pact, '63 letter indicates

When negotiating the revised Japan-U.S. security treaty in 1960, then Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama knew that a diplomatic record on allowing U.S. nuclear-armed vessels to enter Japanese ports without prior consultation constituted a secret pact, a newly found U.S. ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Jun 20, 2010

Formosan aborigines, Ikebukuro: 'Tokyo's cleanest district,' students storm Diet, journalists watch as company chairman murdered

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 30, 1910 The Formosan aborigines At the decisive encounter with the Formosan [Taiwanese] aborigines on the 21st of last month, Cpt. Kawada, Lt. Nozawa and Lt. Fujinami were killed after severe fighting. They died glorious deaths, commanding their men ...

History May 25, 2010

British POW kept in touch with Japanese camp guard for 64 years

by William Hollingworth

LONDON — A British former prisoner of war has been telling of the enduring friendship he built up with his Japanese guard after corresponding with him for 64 years. John Baxter, 91, regularly exchanged birthday and Christmas cards with Hayato Hirano after the time ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY May 16, 2010

Halley's Comet, first international radio broadcast, tsunamis lash coastline, Japan tops creditor list

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Sunday, May 1, 1910 The Comet Telegraphic reports about Halley’s Comet from several districts say: In Shanghai the comet was sighted between 4 and 5 o’clock on the morning of the 29th of last month and was visible to the naked ...

History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Apr 18, 2010

Missionaries in Korea, JNR modernizes, cigarettes as Imperial gifts

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Sunday, April 2, 1910 Missionaries play mixed role in Korea According to the Residency General of Korea, that country’s native population was 9,781,671 at the end of 1908, and that of foreigners 10,797, excluding Japanese, whose number is given as 126,168. ...

History Mar 21, 2010

POWs' memories get Death March caption altered

NEW YORK (AP) For 68 years, John E. Love has been haunted by the memory of carrying fallen comrades to a mass grave hollowed out of a Filipino rice field. Now, at last, a bit of history is being rewritten because of those memories. ...