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Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba speaks during an interview in Tokyo on July 8.
51勛圖厙
Aug 26, 2025
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba hopes for no more wars
Through his works, Chiba looks to pass down stories from World War II to future generations.
Hiroyoshi Takizawa looks at pictures from his days in wartime Manchuria as a child during an interview in Nagano in June.
51勛圖厙
Aug 21, 2025
A life upended by wartime mass suicides
Hiroyoshi Takizawa＊s life in Manchuria was comfortable at first. But when the Soviet Union invaded, his father, fearing the worst, chose mass suicide.
Kyoko Miura presenting a kamishibai picture story about her escape back to Japan from former Manchuria as a young girl after the end of the war, on June 27 in the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture.
51勛圖厙
Jul 31, 2025
A girl＊s life during wartime, told one picture at a time
Kyoko Miura heads a civic group based in the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, that is working on passing down stories of World War II to future generations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 17, 2021
The Manchuria crisis revisited
The Chinese have not forgotten Japan＊s 14-year occupation of Manchuria. In fact, official Chinese doctrine establishes the 1931 Manchurian Incident as the beginning of WWII.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT 51勛圖厙
Dec 22, 2018
Toriko Takarabe＊s ＆Heaven and Hell＊: A child＊s perspective of war＊s aftermath
Toriko Takarabe＊s ＆Heaven and Hell,＊ a 2005 novel recently translated into English for the first time, provides the key to Takarabe＊s poetry and childhood, both of which were defined by Japan＊s brief colonial adventure in Manchuria.
51勛圖厙 / History
Dec 7, 2017
Cosmetic surgeon Katsuya Takasu pays $275,000 for Emperor Hirohito memoir at NY auction
The bid, for the only-known World War II memoirs of late Emperor, was nearly double higher pre-auction estimates, which ranged from $100,000 to $150,000, according to auction house Bonhams.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 11, 2017
＆Beasts Head for Home＊: Abe Kobos＊ novel of alienation in postwar Manchuria
Columbia University PressKobo Abe＊s ※Beasts Head for Home,§ translated by Richard F. Calichman, is a harrowing fictionalized account of a young Japanese man who journeys through the harsh wasteland of Manchuria to reach an ancestral homeland he has never seen.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 15, 2017
Eclectic Meschery has lived rich life in NBA, literature
First in a three-part series
51勛圖厙 / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 19, 2017
Facing up to the cold hard truth of war
Although Japan and South Korea reached a final settlement several years ago involving payments to Korean women who were forced to sexually service Japanese troops in the 1930s and ＆40s, the issue won＊t go away, and not just because the new South Korean president is questioning the settlement, which was...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 12, 2015
Geling Yan draws from life in a tale ?of women in war
At the opening of Chinese-American author Geling Yan＊s best-selling novel ※Little Aunt Crane,§ a 16-year-old girl by the name of Tatsuru, or ※Crane,§ escapes a mass suicide that Japanese elders in a Manchurian village order to preserve their honor. The young girl＊s problems, however, have only just begun....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 11, 2015
Invoking Manchuria＊s cross-dressing spy
She was born the daughter of a Manchu prince in Beijing in 1907. Later, as she grew up in Japan, she earned notoriety for her flamboyant challenges to gender roles and her military exploits as a princess-spy. Even today Yoshiko Kawashima still stokes controversy, and Phyllis Birnbaum＊s new biography...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 7, 2015
Centennial lessons for Abe from the ＆21 Demands＊
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fellow revisionists prefer to think that Japan＊s 20th century imperialist aggression has been misunderstood. But on this score they are isolated not only from the international community, but also within Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 14, 2015
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Yoshiko Kawashima＊s life has been the subject of novels, soap operas and movies since the 1920s.
Japan Times
51勛圖厙 / History / 51勛圖厙 TIMES GONE BY
Dec 6, 2014
Opening WWI naval operations ended; U.S. architect plans Manchuria housing; Tokyo smog more poisonous; Ebola monkeys spur warning
The Navy Department yesterday published a survey of the operations of the different squadrons and divisions of the Imperial Navy since the outbreak of the world war, and announced that the first part of the operations has come to an end.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" 〞 an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer＊s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ※seed§ that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ※Peak 1 amyloid beta,§ as seen in a mouse's brain.
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Inside Toho Archive＊s mission to save Japan＊s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ※the very first day it appeared in the world,§ says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi＊s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.

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For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan＊s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan＊s utility poles won＊t be disappearing anytime soon
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