Danchi
During the Meiji period (1868–1912), Japanese cities rapidly industrialized, bringing large numbers of people from rural areas to urban centers. Some neighborhoods in Tokyo became virtua...
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Denki Roren
Denki Roren, or the Japanese Federation of Electric Machine Workers' Unions, was the sector-level labor-union federation for Japan's workers in the electrical machinery, elec...
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Eda Saburo
(1907–1977), Japanese politician. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Eda Saburo left college to participate in the leftist farmer's movement. Those activities led to his becoming a m...
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Goto Shinpei
(1857–1929), Japanese politician. Trained in medicine, Goto made his name as a colonial administrator in imperial Japan's burgeoning empire. He was subsequently influential ...
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Ichikawa Fusae
(1893–1981), leading Japanese politician, activist in Japan's women's liberation movement. Ichikawa Fusae was born in Aichi Prefecture and graduated from Aichi Wome...
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Japan: History and the Textbook Controversy
The Conflict
For around the past thirty years, people inside and outside Japan have protested the content of that country's history textbooks and their auth...
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A variety of baseballs and photos related to the history of
Japan-U.S. baseball interchanges were auctioned on Tuesday at New
York's Sotheby's, with a ball signed by Babe Ruth sold for $57,00...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH ABE'S VISIT TO BASE IN KUWAIT)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Tuesday with about 200
members of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force stationed at Ali Al Salem
Air Base ...
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TOKYO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A Chinese warship arrived in Tokyo
on Wednesday on the first such port call since World War Two, the
latest sign of warming ties between the Asian neighbours and
former f...
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Aiko Utsumi felt anger when she heard the news about the
irradiation of a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, in
the South Pacific during a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954.
''As...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
RIGHT TO KNOW TAKES A HIT (The Japan Times, an English-language
daily)
The Tokyo High Court has rejected a damages suit filed in 2005...
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The International Whaling Commission passed a resolution Thursday that upholds a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling.The move on the final day of the commission's annual meeting essentially sn...
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Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki, director of the
highly-acclaimed documentary ''White Light/Black Rain'' depicting the
survivors of atomic bomb blasts in 1945, says Japan ''clearly wan...
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Danchi
Japan: History and the Textbook Controversy
Baseball signed by Babe Ruth sold for $57,000 at Sotheby's
