Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO May 8, 2017
Hiroshima A-bomb museum east building reopens
The east building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reopened April 26 following renovations.
National Apr 30, 2017
Famed Saitama art gallery kicks off fundraising campaign to preserve Hiroshima Panels
by Keiji Hirano
A gallery in Saitama Prefecture has launched a fundraising campaign to preserve its main exhibit — a series of large panels depicting the horrors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — in the face of damage caused by insects, ultraviolet rays ...
National Oct 13, 2016
See how art treasures are restored at Kanazawa studio
Ishikawa Prefecture is inviting visitors to view a studio where cultural assets are restored in a bid to draw public attention to the skill of art repair, the first such attempt by a local government in Japan. Ishikawa is known for traditional urushi lacquerware known ...
Entertainment News Apr 21, 2016
Queens museum lands only known film of 'Satchmo' in studio
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the great jazz musician in a recording studio, footage that was discovered in a storage facility. The 33-minute, 16 mm film captures Armstrong recording his 1959 album "Satchmo Plays King Oliver" in Los ...
National Apr 20, 2016
Overseas visitors to Hiroshima atomic bomb museum hit record high in fiscal 2015
The number of foreign visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum marking the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city increased some 104,500 from a year earlier to a record 338,891 in fiscal 2015, the museum said Wednesday. A museum official attributed the rise in ...
National / Crime & Legal Mar 25, 2016
Taiji told to pay ¥110,000 after woman barred from whale museum
The Australian, of conservation group Australia for Dolphins (AFD), was barred from entering the museum in February 2014.
National / History Mar 24, 2016
Uzbek's museum keeps memories of Japanese prisoners in Soviet camps alive
by Hironao Oguma
Documents on Japanese captives sent off to Soviet labor camps after the war are being displayed at a self-funded museum in Tashkent owned by an Uzbek man who spent nearly 20 years building it. "It is part of our history that Japanese people lived in ...
Asia Pacific / Social Issues Nov 5, 2015
Part of UNESCO pitch? Seoul seeks to create 'comfort women' research institute, museum: paper
The South Korean government is working toward establishing a research institute with a history museum archiving and exhibiting materials concerning females forced to work in Japanese military brothels during the war, a South Korean newspaper reported online Wednesday. The Kukmin Ilbo quoted officials of the ...
National Jul 3, 2015
Duskin to open doughnut museum, hoping to benefit from tourism boom
Duskin Co., operator of the U.S.-founded Mister Donut chain, will invest about ¥200 million ($1.6 million) to open a museum in Osaka Prefecture this fall that will allow visitors to experience making doughnuts. The company says the Duskin Museum in the city of Suita, where ...
Art Jun 23, 2015
Tokyo museum showing Buddha statue drawings by Tohoku disaster survivors living in temporary housing
An art exhibit in Tokyo is showing 311 drawings of statues of Buddha by those who are still living in temporary housing in areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, NHK reported on Tuesday. The exhibit is held at Tokyo ...
World Apr 16, 2015
MH17 fragment to be displayed at museum by group of Russian veterans
A Russian veterans organization is planning to display a piece of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet shot down over Ukraine at a museum. The fragment was given to veterans organization Boyevogo Bratstva in the town Yeisk by residents near the crash site as a sign ...
World Mar 30, 2015
Doolittle's WWII heroes to get, give Ohio museum Congressional Gold Medal to Ohio museum
More than seven decades after an audacious bombing run by the "Doolittle Tokyo Raiders" rallied their own nation while stunning another, the World War II heroes are still adding to their legacy. The group will receive the Congressional Gold Medal on April 15 in Washington, ...