The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does that history remain so politicized? Japan and South Korea are covering up ...

Winter festivals in Japan, especially in Hokkaido, have transformed into significant attractions for travelers. The Sapporo Snow Festival originated as a simple school activity and now attracts a ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trial. Eight decades on, the suffering Japan inflicted on ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...

Last October, Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s Prime Minister after being elected as head of the Liberal Democratic Party, the conservative political party that has governed Japan for most of its postwar ...

AI should be a force for the benefit of humanity and the advancement of civilization. It should uphold values that promote the common good and serve truth, peace, and justice. It must never be turned ...

The B.U. Libraries have an excellent collection of both print and electronic resources on the history of Japan. The collection primarily covers the Meiji era (1868) to the present with an emphasis on ...