DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Could you please tell me about this teapot? It is brown with floral decoration and is marked with "MG" surrounded by "Made in Occupied Japan" in a circle. Thank you. - S. L., ...

I’ve just returned from two weeks touring the art and temples of Japan’s Inland Sea. We visited Osaka, Okayama, Takamatsu, Shikoku and the incredible “Art Island” of Naoshima, where the Chichu Museum ...

Kitaoka Fumio, "Going through a Village (Buraku otōru)" (1947), woodcut (all photos courtesy University of Chicago Press) The period between 1945 and 1952 was an odd one in Japan’s history. The ...

On the weekend of Sept. 28-30, the National Occupied Japan Collectors Club will meet in Gardendale from all over the United States. Hosting the event is Beverly Atkins who lives in Trussville, but ...

General Douglas MacArthur is credited with starting one of the 21st century’s hottest collecting trends. When four-year-long World War II ended in 1945, President Harry Truman appointed MacArthur ...

A chance find in Japan provides a glimpse at how children experienced the country's post-war occupation. Used in menko, a traditional Japanese card game played by children, the vintage playing cards ...