After WWII, many leaders were put on trial—but Japan’s Emperor was not. The decision surprised many and shaped the country’s ...

Japanese hold-outs after the second world war are quite the never-ending source of interesting stories. Japanese soldiers ...

SAITAMA—Japan continued to operate its rail network even after Emperor Hirohito for the first time addressed his subjects through radio at noon on Aug. 15, 1945, to announce the nation’s surrender in ...

Is Donald Trump the kind of world-historical figure imagined by Hegel? In an upside-down way, yes ...

During a recent House of Councillors Budget Committee session, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi indicated that she will ...

Write Out Loud will present its READ! IMAGINE! CREATE! Student Celebration in San Diego. The program highlights student work inspired by When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka.

On March 28, 1930, Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul, reflecting Turkey's modernizing reforms. The day also ...

Opinion: America should inspire Iran toward democracy, not act like a conqueror, especially under President Trump's ...

They have, in effect, done to tanks and cannons what muskets once did to knights in shining armor. What Papperger called ...

The Reporter's Thomas F. Mulvoy, Jr. talks with Dorchester native Charles Isberg, who in his 99th year, recalls ‘the C-47s ...

Fumiko Kaneko (1903-1926), a prewar Japanese radical activist and writer known for her fierce opposition to the emperor ...

March 15 once again marks the Ides of March, a date linked annually to doom and misfortune due to the assassination of Julius ...