reading the articles in it is to be confronted with Japan’s modern history: the brutality it inflicted upon others; the brutality inflicted upon it; its ancient ideas that endured; its postwar ...

They were then condemned to commit hara-kiri. Paradoxical as it may seem, the triumph of the most important samurai in the history of Japan, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, marked the beginning of the ...

I speak at universities and colleges where large numbers of students are eagerly learning Japanese language and culture, if not the economy or history of Japan. New Yorkers clearly have a love of ...

He studied the history of Japan’s aggression of his own volition, visiting battle sites in Okinawa and the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, gradually gathering more ...

Japan's work culture can be intense ... I'd always been drawn to Asia, mostly because of the food, culture, and sense of history mixed with rapid innovation. So, I left Mississippi and headed ...