There are other revealing comparisons. While the volume of Japan's industrial production increased by 92 percent from 1931 to 1936, and the quantity of exports by 46 percent from 1933 (when Japan ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is exploiting the extremely tense situation on the Korean Peninsula to push for its military to be able to carry out “pre-emptive” strikes on an enemy ...

Two significant shifts in geopolitics emerged from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Australia this week and his address to its national parliament. The first is the escalation of pressure ...

He was a trailblazing critic of imperialism, but chances are you’ve never heard his name. The radical Japanese journalist Kotoku Shusui, who moved from socialism to anarchism, wrote a seminal critique ...

"Pachinko" is a story of resilience across multiple generations of Koreans as they endured Japan's savage and dehumanizing treatments during the colonial period. History books rarely address the lives ...

“It’s gotta be the shoes!” exclaimed director Spike Lee in the hit Air Jordan shoe commercial of the 1990s, images of which were soon branded into the minds of sports fans around the world. Since then ...

Shatruntapa Patel's Nov. 3 letter, "History defines China and Japan," is just one inaccurate China bashing attack after another. If Patel wishes to compare the histories of China and Japan, it would ...

This long-overdue book challenges the stereotype of a passive Japan victimized by Western imperial powers. From 1858 to 1872, the years of Japan's opening, no Western power was in a position to ...

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), once promoted as a vehicle for deepening Africa–Japan relations, has increasingly revealed itself as a hollow theatre of neo-imperial ...

In his March 20 letter, "Worst lay ahead for much of Asia," Paul de Vries again carps about how the white man was so much worse than the Japanese [during World War II]. I'd like to turn the question ...