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National / History Jan 9, 2020

Long friendship comes full circle with Welsh gift of ginkgo trees to Japan

by Grace Campbell

Over a dozen ginkgo tree saplings have been sent to Japan from Pembrokeshire, a location noted for its remarkable history in Wales' long-standing ties with Japan. The tree the 15 saplings came from is said to have been donated in 1877 by Japanese envoy to ...

National / Media Dec 18, 2011

How The Japan Times saved a foundering battleship, twice

by Edan Corkill

Mikasa! The name of the mighty Japanese battleship will be as familiar to the world's naval historians as it is now to viewers of NHK's Sunday evening drama "Saka no Ue no Kumo" ("Clouds Over the slope"). It was the Mikasa that all but ...