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The Siyuan Aircraft Bunker in Yilan City, Taiwan, which was built by the Japanese during World War II, contains small historical displays and has a bamboo model of Zero fighter plane on its roof, used as a decoy to fool American bombing raids.

JAPAN / History

Jan 11, 2026

Aircraft bunkers in Taiwan’s Yilan county shine light on little-known kamikaze outpost

By David Frazier

The Pacific-facing county hosts the largest concentration of such bunkers in Taiwan that are among the best-preserved examples still remaining anywhere.

The front page of The Japan Times on Jan. 28, 1926, carries news of the death of the prime minister.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

Jan 2, 2026

Japan Times 1926: Premier Kato is dead; victim to influenza after short illness

The front page from a century ago carries an obituary for the Japanese prime minister, who was seen as being from a new generation.

A suicide note left by international politics scholar Kei Wakaizumi is currently on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Archives in the town of Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture.

JAPAN / History

Dec 22, 2025

Secret Okinawa-reversion negotiator’s suicide note now open to public

The letter, which describes the envoy’s grief over brokering a nuclear agreement with the U.S., will be on display through Sunday.

A folding screen depicts a Dutch vessel allied with the Tokugawa shogunate in its efforts to quash a rebellion of local ronin and Catholic peasants led by Amakusa Shiro.

JAPAN / History / The Living Past

Dec 20, 2025

Edo Japan’s bloody legacy of Christian revolt

By Michael Hoffman

By the end of the 16th century, Kyushu was more Christian than Buddhist — setting the stage for one of the most violent clashes of the Edo Period (1603-1867).

In December 1925, The Japan Times reported on a 13-year streak of high birth rates around the country, with more than 50,000 born in Tokyo annually, or an average of 3.37 per 100 people.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

Dec 2, 2025

Japan Times 1925: Tokyo population booming in late Taisho Era

The Japanese capital averaged more than 50,000 births per year in the 13 years leading up to 1925, as steady incomes allowed ordinary people to live prosperous lives.

Before Japanese encroachments onto their native land, the Ainu people in what is present-day Hokkaido lived hunter-gatherer lifestyles supplemented by fishing.

JAPAN / History / The Living Past

Nov 15, 2025

Timeless tales throw the march of ‘progress’ into relief

By Michael Hoffman

Maybe the Ainu had it right after all? Maybe humankind should have remained in that state? What if we had?

Hisako Aihara looks at a photo of central Sendai taken by the U.S. military before the July 1945 air raid on the city, at Sendai's War Reconstruction Memorial Hall.

JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Tohoku

Nov 3, 2025

How a family in Sendai narrowly escaped a U.S. air raid in 1945

While the city was reduced to ashes, Hisako Aihara and her family managed to evacuate in time thanks to a tipoff from a worker at a military facility.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Experts say emotional bonds with AI are often shaped by prior experiences — or disappointments — in human relationships.

Love, engineered in the age of AI

By Elizabeth Beattie

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