It's easy to think about Harakiri as a critique of ancient Japan, but it's worth examining it as commentary on Japan following World War II.
The story of Samurai swords is a tale of Japan’s feudal past. During the Kamakura period (1185-1333), the iconic katana began to take shape. These swords evolved from straight swords that Japanese ...
“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...
However, for the Japanese page alone, it seems they also quietly adjusted the text to remove the word “samurai” from the description of Yasuke. Although Yasuke was a real person associated with ...
What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf”) Wight, author and the real James Herriot? MASTERPIECE got the fascinating facts and sometimes surprising timeline from All ...
Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in ... August 6 and 9: Hiroshima and Nagasaki The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Poland on Wednesday after the two nations reached an agreement over a historical dispute: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era war ...
The issue is sensitive for Ukraine because some of the World War II-era Ukrainian nationalists are regarded as national heroes because of their struggle for Ukraine’s statehood.
A lunar lander developed by a Japanese startup has successfully entered orbit after being launched on a US rocket from the state of Florida. Tokyo-based startup ispace is making its second attempt ...