As Nagasaki marked the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Wednesday, Mayor Tomihisa Taue demanded that the Japanese government join a recently adopted treaty banning nuclear weapons. Taue's call for Japan's inclusion in the treaty, which was adopted by 122 United Nations members ...
"Kurai" ("It's dark") says someone as we open the door at the new entrance of Nanzuka gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo. Yet, the freshly painted black walls and dimly lit stairs inside set the mood for a gallery specializing in underground art, and provide the ...
Four wooden rifles that had been used for bayonet practice during World War II as part of military training in schools have been discovered recently in Konan, Aichi Prefecture. One of the mock rifles bore the stamp of the old Tsushima Junior High School (present-day ...
A diary kept by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy, recounting fierce battles in Siberia when Japan dispatched troops there in the early 20th century, was recently unearthed by Kyodo News. There are few detailed accounts of the war by Japanese troops, with historians ...
Okinawa on Friday marked 72 years since the end of a fierce World War II ground battle that killed a quarter of its civilian population, as resentment continues to run deep over the heavy concentration of U.S. military bases there. Touching on a U.S. Osprey ...
NHK has become the go-to media outlet for scoops on the Imperial family. In July, the public broadcaster was the first to break the news that the Emperor wanted to step down and, last month, it was the first to report Princess Mako's intention ...
100 YEARS AGO Friday, April 13 1917 It has been discovered that cherry trees at Yoshino-yama, the most celebrated cherry flower resort in Japan, have been attacked by white ants. This has given no small surprise to the caretakers of the resort and on Monday last Dr. ...
Iwo Jima is the invisible symbol of reconciliation between Japan and the U.S.
Indiscriminate or otherwise, aerial bombing remains the preferred choice of warfare for the United States, which dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone.
The haunting silhouette of Hashima Island, known in English as Battleship Island, rises up from the sea, an abandoned testament to what was once the most densely populated city on Earth. Thousands of men, women and children lived and worked on the island just off ...
It's staggering to think that, at the end of the Pacific War, almost 7 million Japanese servicemen and civilians were awaiting repatriation in various parts of Asia. Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers, by Yoshikuni Igarashi. 320 pages COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, Nonfiction. That figure makes sense ...
More than 5,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in Darwin, Australia, on Sunday to remember the victims of a Japanese air raid on the city 75 years ago. On Feb. 19, 1942, Imperial Japanese military forces carried out a bombing on Darwin, a strategic base ...
