Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), Sep. 2, 1945. Credit: Army Signal Corps photographer ...

Japan and South Korea are covering up Sado Island’s dark side in a severe misconstruction of the meanings of UNESCO World Heritage, diplomacy, and history. Lately, Japan’s Aikawa Folk Museum, a small ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...

This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, ...

Introduction: The Representation of Japanese History in Manga / Roman Rosenbaum -- Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu's Phoenix / Rachael Hutchinson -- Reading Shōwa ...

Japan has a long history. Archaeological evidence shows that people have lived in the Japanese islands since prehistoric times, and written records from almost 1,700 years ago describe primitive ...