The founder of a Chicago hot dog empire thinks he may have a gold tooth that belonged to a Japanese World War II admiral who orchestrated the Pearl Harbor attack and will “do whatever it takes to find out.” Dick Portillo, founder of the Portillo’s fast food chain, was on ...
Fishhooks found on a southern Japanese island date back some 23,000 years, making them among the world’s oldest fishing implements, ...
Why not fascism? Japan was sinking into chaos. “Officer …” An old woman enters the police station. Would the officers ...
At 87, Kiku Nakayama witnessed the misery of the Battle of Okinawa as a nurse caring for injured troops. ” ‘Stop!’ the soldier implored as his rotting limbs were cut off,” Nakayama recounted in front of a cave where she and others ran a ...
100 YEARS AGO Friday, Sept. 29, 1916 Residents want park where 47 ‘ronin’ buried Residents in Shiba are negotiating with the city authorities for the establishment of a park around Sengakuji, where the remains of the 47 ronin (masterless samurai) are buried. It is ...
The remains of an Imperial Japanese Army soldier were returned to his family in the Otaru, Hokkaido, on Thursday after they were discovered last year on Russian island of Shumshu. The island, at the northern end of the Kuril chain, was the site of ...
Tucked away in a tiny corner of Matsuyama, on a hillside not too far from the famous Dogo Onsen hot springs resort, lies a unique graveyard. Inside lie gravestones for 98 Russian POWs who died during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, a somber reminder of ...
Illness we share with our ancestors. Diagnosis and remedies set us and them apart. Imagine yourself a Kyoto noble 1,000-odd years ago. You’re feeling unwell. “One of two things,” you muse to yourself, “either my yin-yang balance is upset, or …” The second possibility ...
Shoichiro Sasaki, 80, never forgets Aug. 1, 1943 — the day he witnessed his father, a free-thinking journalist, die under extraordinary circumstances before his own eyes. Sasaki, a former NHK TV drama director who has won numerous awards at home and abroad, is convinced ...
100 YEARS AGO Friday, Aug. 11, 1916 ‘Rikisha’ disappearing from Tokyo’s streets With the introduction of electric railways and automobiles, the number of rikisha in Tokyo has greatly decreased, and with the decrease of its number the romantic feature of rikisha has entirely disappeared. ...
The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read Saturday by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima: 1945, August 6, 8:15 a.m. Slicing through the clear blue sky, a previously ...
Two volumes of the diary of the late Japanese poet Sankichi Toge, detailing the horrors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, were this week put on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, which ...
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy will not be attending this year’s ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a U.S. Embassy official said. The ambassador, who has attended the ceremonies over the past two years, will be ...
A copy of an anthology of traditional tanka by Shinoe Shoda written to depict the horrors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and secretly published during the Allied Occupation has been discovered at a temple in Hiroshima Prefecture. The anthology, titled “Sange,” a Buddhist ...
An exhibition on sexual violence committed by the Japanese military in wartime Burma has begun at a Tokyo museum as part of efforts to document the experiences of female victims. Documented in a series of panels at the Women’s Active Museum on War and ...
