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Books / Reviews | RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN Dec 22, 2018

Toriko Takarabe's 'Heaven and Hell': A child's perspective of war's aftermath

by Robert P. Largess

Toriko Takarabe's "Heaven and Hell," a 2005 novel recently translated into English for the first time, provides the key to Takarabe's poetry and childhood, both of which were defined by Japan's brief colonial adventure in Manchuria.

National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Feb 17, 2013

Tokyo Station nears completion, Hitler lauds Japan, high-schools surge, Constitution to keep Article 9, PM declares

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913 Tokyo Central station nears completion The Tokyo Central Railway Station, now under construction at Eiraku-cho, Kojimachi Ward [a now-defunct ward spanning much of present-day Chiyoda Ward], will, when completed next year, make one of the finest structures of the metropolis. ...