During World War II, the Japanese imperial authorities abducted, coerced, tricked and sometimes recruited hundreds of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted New Year’s well-wishers who gathered at the Imperial ...

An anonymous Japanese American blogger, who goes by the online handle "tpjv86b," has been translating this content into English as part of his Exposing Imperial Japan project. "As I explored ...

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Lithuania’s then-Culture Minister Simonas Kairys decided that performing Russian composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s classic ...

Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school ...

and in 1868 the Meiji Restoration replaced the decaying shogunate with the Empire of Japan – a constitutional nation state that modernised and industrialised at a remarkable rate. CPC Collection/Alamy ...

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UC Santa Cruz researchers are advancing cutting-edge projects that tackle critical issues such as antiracist education, ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22. The event’s theme th ...