Ken Watanabe was wary and unsure when he first heard news that Clint Eastwood wanted to make “Letters From Iwo Jima.”A companion piece to the American director’s “Flags of Our Fathers ...

Silverado High School junior Ian Underwood, 16, shows a letter from his Japanese pen pal, Taichi Inakazu, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, during a Japanese class at the high school in Las Vegas.

Sirs: Tycoon (Japanese: Dai—Great; Kun—Noble One, or Prince) used by the latter Shoguns of the Tokugawa Line descended from leasu (Seventeenth Century) and up to the abdication of Tokugawa ...

Editor -- In "Getting an autumn fix" (Oct. 7), the author correctly noted that momiji is the Japanese word for Japanese maple. But she said the name translates as "baby's hands." ...

Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood’s second World War II epic about the battle for that forlorn volcanic island, is a more straightforward film than his elegiac Flags of Our Fathers. Where… ...