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Players gather for a baseball game at an unearthed and restored baseball field that had not seen a competition in 75 years, at the site of a Japanese internment camp in Manzanar, California, on Oct. 28.

JAPAN / History

Nov 4, 2024

In an internment camp, all they had was baseball. They’re back to play.

By Tim Arango

Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, baseball was a source of connection between Japan and the United States.

A front page announcement for Hideki Yukawa's Nobel Prize win in the fields of physics informs readers of Japan's first-ever Nobel laureate.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

Nov 4, 2024

Japan Times 1949: Yukawa wins Nobel award

Along with Japan receiving its first Nobel Prize 75 years ago, a lengthy write-up on the man who sought to kill the emperor appeared on our front pages.

The Allied Occupation of Japan after World War II brought an end to the country’s brothels, which resulted in the Prostitution Prevention Law of 1956.

JAPAN / History / The Living Past

Oct 19, 2024

Edo Japan's morals pose a debate for the modern age

By Michael Hoffman

Can we judge what’s right or wrong across centuries? Edo’s morals of sacrifice and duty distinctly clash with our own modern ethics.

A nuclear accident that took place on Sept. 30 makes the front page of The Japan Times on Oct. 1, 1999.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

Oct 1, 2024

Japan Times 1999: Nuclear accident hits critical mass

A second incident 25 years ago at the Tokai Nuclear Power Plant in Ibaraki Prefecture that exposes workers to radiation causes concern and challenges.

The conduct and business of love in Japan’s Edo Period (1603-1867) was rough, and nowhere was it rougher than in the pleasure quarters of the capital city.

JAPAN / History / The Living Past

Sep 29, 2024

Good or bad, both or neither: Edo Japan and the moral conscience

By Michael Hoffman

The era's warrior class and its martial virtues were redundant but lived on — overshadowed by the pursuit of pleasure.

A white hood believed to have been worn by the Sengoku Period warlord Uesugi Kenshin

JAPAN / History

Sep 15, 2024

Repair work begins for hood linked to warlord Uesugi Kenshin

The white hood is expected to be exhibited to the public in 2028 or 2030.

Maestro Seiji Ozawa (center) lays flowers at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in October 2005.

JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima

Sep 9, 2024

Maestro Seiji Ozawa’s prayer for peace lives on in Hiroshima

His musical roots — and passion — can be traced back to the city where the first atomic bomb was detonated.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.

The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition

By Alex K.T. Martin

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Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

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