'Paper Houses': Loving one half of the country, detesting the other
Author William Plomer came to Japan during the 1920s following the publication of "Turbott Wolfe." Hugely inspired by the country, in his later life he persuaded Benjamin Britten to watch a noh performance, inspiring him to write the opera "Curlew River," and publisher Jonathan ...
'The Barren Zone': A POW's trauma doesn't end at home
Toyoko Yamasaki's "The Barren Zone" is a chilling portrayal of the harsh realities of being a POW and the social difficulties faced by survivors upon returning to Japan.
Japan's war crimes, colonialism and apologies
Both Japan and South Korea must aim for objectivity and impartiality in their grasp of their history.
Japan 1919: Women go on strike for first time in Japan
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Aug. 13 1919 First women's strike in Japan THE JAPAN TIMES Over 100 female workers employed at a silk reeling factory in Maebashi struck, demanding a 50 percent increase in wages, on Friday. Owing to the absence of the proprietor, the foreman promised to ...
Bill Bradley details Chiune Sugihara's heroism in award-winning radio documentary
Bill Bradley, captain of the U.S. gold medal-winning basketball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was recently involved in another winning (and historically important) project with ties to Japan. And it has nothing to do with basketball. The weekly satellite radio program "American Voices with Senator ...
Bank of England picks gay World War II code-breaker Alan Turing for new £50 bank note
Mathematician Alan Turing, whose cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies to win World War II but who committed suicide after being convicted for homosexuality, will appear on the Bank of England's new £50 banknote, the central bank said Monday. "As the father ...
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.”
Database of Japanese buried in Australia during WWII completed
A comprehensive, bilingual database of Japanese nationals who died in Australia during World War II and were buried in a war cemetery in the country's east has been completed, researchers announced Thursday. The Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Database project will be open to the public ...
'Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths' review: Pulling no punches when it comes to the realities of war
In "Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths," manga artist and veteran Shigeru Mizuki brings the Pacific front of World War II to life with unflinching realism and a grotesque and sardonic humor.
Japan Times 1969: Exploding balloons injure eight people
By the violent wind Wednesday evening, two large, two-storied buildings at the Tokyo Medical College at Higashi-Okubo that were being erected, and one of them almost completed, were blown down and destroyed. In the suburbs, several small houses tumbled down.
Japan Times 1919: Tokyo gripped by dread disease
Spanish influenza again holds Tokyo in its deadly grip, favored by the changeable weather.
Hoop pioneer Wat Misaka reflects on breaking barriers in an incredible life
Wataru "Wat" Misaka never demanded the spotlight nor shouted from the roof tops seeking attention. But the reserved, humble man gained a measure of fame late in life when a documentary, "Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story," was released in 2008. As a result, younger generations ...
