BAXTER — It’s been a lifetime since the end of World War II. This year, Aug. 14 marked the diamond jubilee of Victory over Japan Day. That’s 75 years. Someone could have been born on Aug. 14, 1945, ...
FUKUOKA, Japan — A series of prison sketches by a Japanese physician convicted, but later acquitted, of crimes against Americans during World War II were handed to the man’s family on Friday, thanks ...
They were GIs – 17, 18 and 19 years old – and they were guarding some of the leaders of the Japanese war effort in World War II. Among their famous charges: Gen. Hideki Tojo, who was Japan's prime ...
Harajuku may be Tokyo’s centre for flamboyant youth fashion, but Sugamo is where the golden generation go to strut their styles. This otherwise unspectacular corner of Toshima ward is famed for its ...
Most Tokyo residents know of Sugamo as a ne’er-visited stop on the Yamanote line — if they know of it at all. Yet here lies one of the city’s most interesting shopping streets. Think Center Gai or ...
Gamer elites are nowhere near as strict as Sugamo clientele in deciding which games are actually famous. PlatinumGames’ Hideki Kamiya has always been known for his no compromises approach in making ...
Gifting, and therefore shopping for gifts, seems part of the gestalt of winter. In Tokyo, though, retail wonderlands tend to be packed and pricey, full of ersatz Christmas music, harried customers and ...
Horizontal layers of colour protrude out from the facade of this bank branch in Tokyo by Tokyo-based French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux. By night each of the twelve colour bands of the Sugamo ...
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