For Daisuke Nakai's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
A woman whose grandparents were saved by a Japanese vessel during the 1917 Russian Revolution spent years searching for the identity of the ship's captain and in the process has shed light on a little-known story. Olga Molkina, 59, finally found the descendants of the ...
The Foreign Ministry hopes a new guidance program will encourage more youths to apply to and successfully join the United Nations, in which Japan remains underrepresented relative to its financial contribution. Starting Tuesday the ministry, together with the U.N. Information Center in Tokyo, will hold ...
Naoki Mizuno, a Kyoto University professor, is hoping to shed light on the Japanese who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II and remain buried there. "The issue is a result of Japan's (colonial rule of ...
