History

Readers get news of a new bomb being used by the Americans in the war.

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely have some effect on this year's ceremonies marking the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A resident of Kawakami, Nara Prefecture, retraces what happened to the survivors of a B-29 ‘superfortress’ that went down over Kansai near the end of World War II.

The dispute has re-emerged since an information center in Tokyo that opened last month included materials suggesting conscripted workers were well treated.

In the book, Sumiteru Taniguchi tells how he survived his burns and became an anti-nuclear activist.

Michiko Yoshitsuka was working in a munitions factory when the city was bombed in 1945.

The act of walking was one that Saigyo, Basho and Matsuo turned into poetry.

Although cholera made its appearance in South-Western Japan some time ago, Tokyo has been so far free of the epidemic.

A fire in October 2019 marked the second time that Zenichi Yoshimine had seen Shuri Castle burn.