Legacy of pioneering Japanese doctor lives on in communities for disabled
As Japan prepares to host its second Paralympics next summer, one social welfare group can look back on over five decades of effort it has made to achieve the vision ...
The swift rise and fall of Japanese anarchism
Sakae Osugi — born 1885, murdered 1923 — fanned the flames of the peasant Rice Riots in Japan's short-lived age of anarchy.
American pacifist's little-known legacy lives on in A-bombed cities
Mitsuo Baba is still grateful to an American who dedicated himself to building homes for A-bomb survivors in Nagasaki, one of two cities destroyed by the terrifying weapons in World ...
Japan Times 1994: 'Juliana's Tokyo closes after police crack down on dress code'
100 YEARS AGO Friday, June 27 1919 Envoy to Korea escapes assassination attempt THE JAPAN TIMES Adm. Baron Saito, governor-general of Korea, and party arrived at the Great South Gate Station, Seoul, on the 2nd at 6 p.m. When the governor-general got into his carriage after being welcomed by ...
Pioneering Japanese interpreting team opened nation's eyes to disabled athletes at '64 Paralympics
Foreign residents and wheelchairs — much less Paralympic athletes — were a rare sight in Japan in 1964. Preparations to host the Summer Olympics and the second-ever Paralympics were well underway. Stadiums, highways and hotels were being built at breakneck speeds, cutting-edge photographic and timing ...
Emperor Showa prevented from expressing remorse over war in '52, newly disclosed documents reveal
Emperor Hirohito, known posthumously as Emperor Showa, wanted to express his regret and remorse over World War II in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by the prime minister at the time.
Sapporo preservation group frets over stories of aging Japanese who were held in Siberia after war
A group passing on the experiences of the Japanese detained in Siberia by the former Soviet Union after the war has begun new activities to prepare for a time when none of the dwindling former prisoners will be able to speak about their experiences ...
In the anarchy of Japan's industrial revolution
Japan's Meiji Era (1868-1921) industrial revolution set a scene of chaos for the nation's advocates of political and social change.
Nagasaki magazine recording testimonies of hibakusha marks 50th anniversary
A magazine that documents the testimonies of the Nagasaki hibakusha and disseminates messages against war and nuclear weapons marked its 50th anniversary Friday. In a prefatory note in its inaugural issue on Aug. 9, 1969, Nagasaki no Shogen (Testimonies of Nagasaki) said it "hopes to ...
Aichi high schoolers pass on alumni's experiences of WWII air raids
Seventy-four years after the end of World War II, high school students in Aichi Prefecture are working to pass down stories of students who lived through wartime air raids. Through the activities, they have come to think that the war is not something just in ...
Forty years on, Hiroshima hibakusha, 82, still telling her story — in English
An 82-year-old hibakusha has been describing her wartime experiences in English for some 40 years to foreign visitors at Peace Memorial Park, near the hypocenter of the Hiroshima A-bomb. But Keiko Ogura is also passionate about nurturing young people, because they will be the ones ...
Japan 1919: Women go on strike for first time in Japan
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Aug. 13 1919 First women's strike in Japan THE JAPAN TIMES Over 100 female workers employed at a silk reeling factory in Maebashi struck, demanding a 50 percent increase in wages, on Friday. Owing to the absence of the proprietor, the foreman promised to ...
