Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter explain 'Waiting for Godot' to Stephen Colbert and it's a total trip The best way to learn about the history of any country is from a history book or, at the very least, a ...
In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...
Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times. The political and socio-historic ...
When Bill Wurtz published his purposefully sparse comedic animation, “history of japan,” to YouTube in February 2016, Reddit got a hold of the video and rocketed his channel to viral stardom. To date, ...
Nihon Hidankyo was honored “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” It’s a culmination of nearly 70 years of work. The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a ...
Ceremonies are being held in Seoul today to mark South Korea’s first Memorial Day for Japanese Forces’ “comfort women” - civilians who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels. South Korea ...
Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Considering that she literally wrote the book on Japanese American history in San Diego, it’s of little surprise that San Diego City College history professor Susan Hasegawa was previously familiar ...
Shunichiro Kanaya, trans. from the Japanese by Zack Davisson. Tuttle, $18.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1670-2 “Comics are a fantastic way to learn about history” promises the introduction to ...