The revival of a midcentury home places the work of the unsung architect Junzo Yoshimura in a new context. By Design takes a ...

The Tokyo residence of wartime Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe is now open to the public after extensive renovations to restore ...

At 8.15 a.m. on 6 August 1945, a B-29 bomber called Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’ over Hiroshima. The thermal radiation from ...

During Hirohito’s reign, Japanese forces occupied ... in a ritual-bound, centuries-old ceremony attended by more than a hundred dignitaries from around the world. November 8, 2020 – Japan ...

but with Hirohito. And that pushed him. The one big mistake the old fox made was — I mean, everyone thought that that might happen. And so, India and Pakistan became two states. And very soon ...

62-year-old war veteran Okuzaki Kenzo is known to be an erratic and attention seeking man. He has made a declaration to assassinate Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei and was found shooting pachinko balls ...

The princess was the widow of Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously ... forcing the family―including their 1-year-old daughter, Princess Yasuko―to ...

A 42-year-old American missionary ... The Japanese government announced last month that it would build for Emperor Hirohito a $26 million palace to replace one wrecked by Allied bombs during ...

TOKYO, JAPAN, March 02 — Converted steeplechaser Tadese Takele sped along a fast learning curve in the Tokyo Marathon as the ...

Old brick and stone dwellings line the first couple of hundred ... This structure was built ahead of the 1923 grand tour of Taiwan by Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito (posthumously honored as Emperor ...