Japan hs held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after the ...

which is viewed by China as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism. “Words of protest, such as ‘militarism’ and ‘die,” were written,” he said. An NHK editor and an outside director ...

After boycotting one organised by Tokyo, South Korea held its own memorial event on Monday for compatriots forced to work in ...

Japan has held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines despite a last-minute boycott of the event by South Korea ...

South Korea has paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a memorial ceremony.

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is set to hold discussions ... She told the Mainichi, "If I don't speak up, I'll die like her. I want people to know that, unlike when you are working, these ...

The timely book is a disquieting diatribe against misogyny and body shaming in Japan through the lens of food fetishization. While it’s not a cookbook, it counterintuitively made me want to cook ...

Funerals make frequent appearances in Japanese films, though usually they are sidebars to the main story. The few that center on them, such as Yukihiro Morigaki’s “Goodbye, Grandpa!” ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a collective of Japanese atomic bomb survivors. What can we learn from their stories and their efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons?

The government plans to end “hanko” stamp requirements in almost all of the nation’s administrative procedures as part of wide-ranging efforts to reduce red tape and promote digitization.

Here’s how it works. Signalling the end of Summer and beginning of Autumn, the latest camera and lens sales data for September 2024 has been released by Japanese camera and lens manufacturers' trade ...