Where is the beauty in downplaying the "comfort women" issue, muzzling the media, promoting patriotic education, rolling back transparency and restarting nuclear reactors?
Reports from a local Hawaiian newspaper show two more prime ministers visited Pearl Harbor in the 1950s, providing further evidence Shinzo Abe will not be the first.
We examine the historical debate on the country's nuclear ambitions
Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi pressed U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower at a summit in 1957 to consider setting a deadline for returning Okinawa, saying the Japanese public might otherwise become nervous about U.S. intentions, according to diplomatic records declassified Wednesday. The talks, 15 years before ...
On the eve of the International Olympic Committee's decision to award the 2020 Summer Games to Tokyo, Seoul's abrupt import ban on all fisheries products from Fukushima and seven other Japanese prefectures was clearly a response to public concerns about radiation spewing into the ...
Foreign Ministry officials in 1958 debated the acquisition of “defensive” nuclear weapons and reported their interest to the U.S., newly declassified documents show.
