November 30, 2023

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A research team including Hokkaido University scientists has discovered the skeleton of a new dinosaur that was curled up in a position like that of a sleeping modern-day bird.

JAPAN / History

Nov 17, 2023

Team including Hokkaido University scientists unearths new dinosaur

The focal point of the discovery is that evidence of the dinosaur's behavior was preserved, something rarely seen in fossils.

People from Hawaii pray for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, on a beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in 2014.

JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Fukushima

Nov 13, 2023

Fukushima celebrates a century of special ties with Hawaii

Residents emigrated to Hawaii and other places to cultivate undeveloped land, and made a living by working in the sugar industry.

The front page of The Japan Times from Nov. 13, 1948, heralds the verdicts given to Japan's war criminals.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

Nov 3, 2023

Japan Times 1948: Tojo and 6 others are sentenced to hang

As sentences are handed down in 1948, two other eras deal with fallout from an earthquake and an oil shock.

Siti Chairani Proehoeman stands in front of the house and statue of her mother's uncle Achmad Mochtar in the village of Ganggo Hilia in Indonesia's West Sumatra Province on June 9.

JAPAN / History

Oct 26, 2023

Indonesian descendants of Japanese occupation victims recall pain

By Christine T. Tjandraningsih

Although the crimes cannot be forgotten, they can be forgiven as they occurred under the extraordinary circumstances of war, the descendants have said.

Polish Ambassador to Japan Pawel Milewski (left), Polish development bank BGK President Beata Daszynska-Muzyczka (second from left), Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker and member of the Japan-Poland Parliamentary Friendship Association Hirobumi Niki (second from right), and social welfare corporation Fukudenkai President Takaaki Ota attend a ceremony at the Polish Embassy in Tokyo on Oct. 19.

JAPAN / History

Oct 26, 2023

Japan and Poland mark centennial of orphans' rescue from Siberia

By Ko Hirano

The Japanese Red Cross Society conducted rescue and relief missions from 1920 to 1922 for a total of 765 Polish children.

Aiko Taniguchi (front row, center) visits Colonia Pinhal, a settlement in Sao Paulo, for the first time in 11 years and participates in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of its opening, in August.

JAPAN / History

Oct 19, 2023

Brazil's 'Fukui Village' celebrates its 60th anniversary

By Kai Nishino

Fourteen people in three families from Fukui Prefecture first settled in Colonia Pinhal the 1960s.

Students from Kyushu Sangyo University hold their paintings alongside three atomic bomb survivors whom they spoke with in a bid to depict hibakusha experiences on canvas, in Fukuoka in July.

JAPAN / History

Oct 10, 2023

A-bomb survivors' experiences told through student art project

By Eriko Noguchi

A-bomb survivors in Fukuoka reached out to Kyushu Sangyo University and asked art students there to create paintings to be used during talks.

An official shot for this year’s lineup for NHK’s annual “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”

Things get warmer with Xi; Johnny’s get the cold shoulder

Yoshiko Koide sits in a classroom at Nagoya College where she teaches a Japanese-language observation seminar.

How a dictionary came to spark outrage among the web’s otaku

By Thu-Huong Ha and Yukana Inoue

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