The exhibition showcases how nature coexists with Japan’s major cities.
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The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Japan has a rich queer history and is seeing societal changes in favor of greater LGBTQ recognition. That said, national politicians have yet to catch up.
An uncompromising writer who wrote about the dark and light of postwar Japan
Abe was Japan’s longest-serving post-war PM. His legacy, while considerable, is mixed.
A mermaid with face of a monkey and body of fish has reignited interest in the Japanese ningyo
Putin is following a strategy used by other imperial countries, particularly 19th-century China and Japan.
Despite its cutting-edge image, Japan has a soft spot for the decidedly 20th-century machines.
There have been eight women who ruled as empress, but Japanese culture has always prioritised maleness.
A new exhibition surveys the haunting Japanese traditions and beliefs that connect the supernatural with the everyday.
History tells us there were eight women who ruled as empresses of Japan, but since reforms of the constitution in 1947, only a man can inherit the throne.
Japan’s 86-year-old Emperor Akihito abdicates on April 30 — an exceedingly rare event for this ancient monarchy. Can his son, Prince Naruhito, give Japan’s royal family a modern makeover?
The country has reached back more than a thousand years into its early literary heritage for an auspicious name for a new era under a new emperor.
Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.
US-Japan relations are under pressure. As leaders of the two countries meet this week, a scholar tells the story of the exchange program that made such a difference to American attitudes toward Japan.
As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”.
In Japanese popular culture, new trends come and go. But the Japanese have toyed with gender norms for generations.
Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence will be shown to an audience of priests at the Vatican today. It tells the story of persecuted Christians in 17th century Japan - an event still remembered by Nagasaki’s Catholic community.
Mourning a death is natural and necessary, but sometimes politics gets in the way of grief.
Speaking at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Barack Obama sounded a hopeful note – but both the US and Japan still fall short.
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Lecturer, Language and Culture, Keele University
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Lecturer in History of Japanese art and architecture, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of East Asian History, University of York
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Lecturer in International Relations, Loughborough University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Professor of Mobile Media and Games., RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England
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Professor of Anthropology and Art History, University of Michigan
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Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
