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During my graduate education in Japanese history, interpreting handwritten primary source material from the 19th century and earlier was one

Autumn drinks may be in Starbucks stores around Japan already, but some locations are still holding on to summer flavors

Thanks to the anime Lycoris Recoil, an unusually beautiful Japanese flower is gaining media attention on either side of the Pacific: the higanbana[1].

A Tokyo doctor was arrested under suspicion of administering false COVID-19 vaccines, forging vaccine paperwork, and defrauding the government for

Common perception of the Edo period of Japanese history focuses on the era’s strict feudal structure, portraying women as powerless

Now that Japan is opening up again (sort of), Tokyo’s museums are getting ready to welcome a new flood of

Take a stroll through a Japanese city, and you’ll come face to face with any number of loan words from

I’ll never forget watching coverage of a crazed driver plow into a crowd of anti-white supremacist protesters in Virginia[1]. I

For years, Japan has been in possession of what many regard as the first extant writing from the nation’s history.