Kyoko Miura heads a civic group based in the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, that is working on passing down ...

Nobuki Sugihara was 19 years old when, in the summer of 1968, an unexpected call came in from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo. A ...

A statue called “Otome no Hi” (Monument to the maidens) was erected in 1982 in Gifu Prefecture. But an explanation on who the ...

TOKYO -- A 97-year-old living in Hiroshima, who was among the teenagers sent to occupied Manchuria, now northeastern China, as part of a Japanese gove ...

Bandits, Japanese invaders, and Communists all threatened her life. Her dedication never wavered. In 1923, 26-year-old Mamie Johnston (韩悦恩, Han Yue-en) was sent by the Presbyterian Church in ...

Growing up, Fumina Oka knew little about the mysterious university her Taiwanese grandfather attended in northern China’s Manchuria during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century. But as ...

Spanning the full sweep of Chinese studies of six centuries, Modern China encourages scholarship that crosses over the old "premodern/modern" and "modern/contemporary" divides. In addition to research ...