In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...
Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...
Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times. The political and socio-historic ...
In 1899, a young Osaka merchant named Shinjiro Torii opened a small wine shop with an idea that would change the spirits ...
Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former “comfort women,” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the ...
Migration policies are influenced by a complicated mix of labor markets, geopolitics, trade and diplomacy — and often have unintended consequences. Migration policies are often formed at a confluence ...
Considering that she literally wrote the book on Japanese American history in San Diego, it’s of little surprise that San Diego City College history professor Susan Hasegawa was previously familiar ...