Okinawa marks 49th anniversary of reversion as pandemic limits base protests
A protest march was canceled this year to prevent the spread of COVID-19, while the number of people joining a rally in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Foster was also restricted.
‘Headless Girl’: A lighter approach to the act of historical interpretation
A planned peace memorial triggers open conflict in Ken Kawai’s “Headless Girl,” a scattershot satire about who gets to write history.
When a WWII bombardier found his humanity
When we talked that day, I learned much about my friend’s actions during the war — conduct that made me admire him even more than I did before.
Japanese gallery to restore famous A-bomb paintings for first time
The set of 15 works titled "The Hiroshima Panels" by the late Iri and Toshi Maruki, who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, have severely deteriorated.
While on tour in Europe a century ago, the man who would become Emperor Hirohito delivers a speech on world peace.
U.N. report focuses on stateless Japanese descendants in Philippines
Most of the stateless residents, second-generation Japanese Filipinos, were children of Japanese fathers who moved to the Philippines before World War II and Filipino mothers.
Despite ‘comfort women’ ruling, Tokyo-Seoul relations expected to remain tense
A South Korean court’s reversal on a previous “comfort women” ruling may be seen as a win for Japan, but Tokyo is not celebrating just yet.
Unreleased diary of pioneering Japanese feminist to be displayed
Several photocopied pages of the diary of Raicho Hiratsuka, in which she claimed women should raise their voice in peace issues, will be exhibited in Nagano Prefecture.
The prime minister does not plan to visit the shrine during a two-day spring festival through Thursday.
South Korean court dismisses lawsuit by former 'comfort women' against Japan
The court applied sovereign immunity to the case — a concept under international law that says a state is immune from the jurisdiction of a court in a foreign country.
UNESCO OKs Memory of World rule change in reform sought by Japan
Under the new rules, in a bid to avoid disagreements, every application is disclosed to member countries before screening begins at the advisory committee of the program.
'Deepest wreck dive' reaches U.S. World War II ship off Philippines
The ship was sunk on Oct. 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf as U.S. forces fought to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation.
