Explore Japanese history books covering samurai, religion, war, pop culture and modern society, from ancient Japan to today.

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After being mislabeled and nearly impossible to find, this beverage steeped in Japanese history is finally making a name for itself in the States. If you haven't heard of shochu, you aren't alone.

Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former “comfort women,” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Off the coast of Tiburon, jutting out of the San Francisco Bay, is Angel Island. Accessible only by a ferry, it’s a large, hilly state park that offers sweeping views and miles of hiking trails. But ...

Researchers have extracted Ancient DNA from human bones to re-write early Japanese history by underlining that modern day populations in Japan have a tripartite genetic origin -- a finding that ...

Japanese artists Iwasa Matabei (1578–1650) and Takashi Murakami, though separated by centuries, converge in a singular, uncanny moment in Gagosian’s latest exhibition: “Japanese Art History à la ...