Defining the Heisei Era: Just how peaceful were the past 30 years?
Asked what characteristics best summed up the Heisei Era (1989-2019), 79 percent of Japanese people thought it would be best remembered as being “peaceful and without war.”
Hiroshima introduces interactive map to get tourists to visit A-bomb sites off the beaten path
Hiroshima has unveiled the Hiroshima Peace Tourism project, which includes an interactive map showing routes intended to help visitors view the city's many memorial sites beyond just the Atomic Bomb Dome in the Peace Memorial Park, the main and only destination for about half of ...
China opposition likely to stop Japanese students speaking at U.N. disarmament conference in Geneva
Japanese student peace ambassadors are unlikely to deliver a speech at this year's Conference on Disarmament in Geneva due to vehement opposition from China and other countries, a U.N. diplomatic source said Monday. If high school student ambassadors — candidates for this year's Nobel Peace ...
World debates what action to take over North Korea
Nine years after then-U.S President Barack Obama committed America to the pursuit of "a world without nuclear weapons," nine months after the U.N. adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and five months after the Nobel Peace Prize Committee conferred one of ...
Kagoshima artist completes global peace mural painting trek in Okinawa
A Japanese artist has attained his goal of painting murals in 10 countries to spread a message of peace, completing the last one on his home soil to complete the three-year quest. Shinichiro Higashi finished a painting of a pigeon holding a white daisy in ...
Has pacifism always been doomed to fail in Japan?
Japan had a pacifist "constitution" long before 1947, when the current one went into effect. It was issued in the year 604, its author so esteemed, in his own time and since, as to merit the posthumous name Shotoku Taishi (Crown Prince Sage-Virtue). His ...
Translators bring work by foreign peace activists to Japanese readers
Though there are many pacifist campaign groups worldwide, their efforts often go unnoticed in Japan due to the language barrier. A group of translators is seeking to change that by translating into Japanese reports produced by foreign journalists and lobbyists pushing for peace. "Information announced by ...
Is the world getting more peaceful? Maybe not
While some academics believe the world is getting more peaceful, new research suggests they might be getting their math wrong.
Stronger ties with ASEAN vital to Japan's security: ODA paper
Japan called for stronger ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in an annual report on foreign aid Friday, saying they were vital to ensuring its national security at a time when China's influence in the region is growing. Seeing the 10-member regional bloc ...
Miyazaki's controversial Peace Tower continues to cause unease
A monument in the city of Miyazaki built to glorify Imperial Japan's occupation of Asian nations and later rededicated as the city's Peace Tower has been a source of local discomfort for decades. In 1965, authorities restored an Imperial-era slogan on the 36-meter stone tower, ...
Patriotic few battle addiction to peace
The Japanese school system’s treatment of modern history is so slipshod that having a rational debate on the need for war is nearly impossible, young nationalists say.
The awakening of a nation permanently at peace
There's something to be said for national isolation. Peace, for example. The very few foreigners allowed into Japan during its 250-odd years of almost total seclusion, from the early 17th century to the mid-19th, were awed by the spectacle of a nation permanently at ...
