Hitomi Shibazaki remembers being stunned when she found her grandmother's name in a poem in her textbook during a Japanese language class at her junior high school. The poem, titled "Bowing Person," was accompanied by a photo of Liu Guiqin in March 1985, bowing deeply ...
The 80-year-old female volunteer looked on warmly as men and women of all ages cheered and laughed with performers on stage at a public hall in Yokohama. "I could have been one of them," Akiko Nakamura said gently, looking at some 180 participants in the ...
Dr. Hiroshi Ishikawa believes there is no one better qualified than him to treat the patients he sees. Some travel for up to two hours to visit the 68-year-old at Suzushiro Clinic in Tokyo's Nerima Ward, and lines form before it opens at 9 a.m. ...
At a language class earlier this year for war-displaced Japanese left behind in China as children at the end of World War II, Tsuyako Suzuki was suddenly reminded that it had been exactly 29 years since she managed to make it to the country ...
The government will conduct a comprehensive survey this fall on the latest living conditions of war-displaced Japanese orphans repatriated from China and their descendants, with the aim of easing their educational and financial difficulties, a welfare ministry official said Monday. The move will mark the ...
Takashi Kinoshita, 73, lived most of his adulthood with a secret that until recently he wouldn't dare divulge even to his children: he was nearly illiterate. As a child, Kinoshita grew up at a time when Japan was still in the grip of postwar poverty. ...
If Japan throws its doors open to immigrants it might start looking like a certain neighborhood in Yokohama with multilingual street signs, ethnic eateries, and a babel of languages spoken in the streets. At the heart of this unconventional neighborhood is the so-called Icho housing ...
