Japan News News Japan » History: Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines Designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site With South Korea’s Backing
Japan and South Korea are covering up Sado Island’s dark side in a severe misconstruction of the meanings of UNESCO World Heritage, diplomacy, and history. Lately, Japan’s Aikawa Folk Museum, a small ...
News Japan » History: Why Can’t Japan Solve Historical Perception Issues?
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), Sep. 2, 1945. Credit: Army Signal Corps photographer ...
News Japan » History: The Eerie History of Aokigahara: Japan’s Suicide Forest
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Aokigahara Forest is an infamous destination in Japan. pictured: A foggy Japanese forest with no sunlight and thick trees The ...
News Japan » History: Postwar Japan at 80: 10 factors that changed the nation forever
This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, ...
News Japan » History: Imaging Japanese History:
Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...
News Japan » History: Manga and the representation of Japanese history / edited by Roman Rosenbaum
Introduction: The Representation of Japanese History in Manga / Roman Rosenbaum -- Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu's Phoenix / Rachael Hutchinson -- Reading Shōwa ...