The collection includes the accompanying wartime portrait of Swain in uniform. On the back is the inscription, “Libby – Some ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was 108.

Nanori is a Japanese verb you can translate as ‘To Say One’s Name.’ Nanori was a common element of Bushido between the Heian and Kamakura periods (794 – 1333). Bushido governed every aspect of a ...

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

The items donated by her niece Elizabeth Martin also include hundreds of black and white photographs from ... Subsequently, the surrender of Japan’s Imperial forces in the Pacific on August ...

If the U.S. backs Russian sovereignty over militarily occupied Crimea as part of a Ukraine peace deal, that could endanger ...

The Reckoning author Phil Craig out for a drink. We would only have a couple of pints (nothing over the top) while we spoke ...

The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor holds many documents from the early 20th century when the United States colonized the Philippines. The Clements ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields, the US launched a five-week ...

and the Imperial Army followed with its own unit. Internationally their missions are called kamikaze, but in Japan they are better known as “tokko,” which means “special attack.” ...