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, ...

Tokyo Trial. As a landmark judicial event in the aftermath of World War II, the trial has exerted a profound influence on modern international criminal law and the evolution of the international order ...

Last week’s column recounted one of the darkest periods in U.S. and Arizona history — the forced internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Not only was Arizona one of seven states that operated ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as “poison” for whitewashing ...