graphic novel in English of comparable depth and scope is Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Originally published in 1988-89, Showa is the first installment in a 4-volume set that will be issued in the US over ...

Explore Japanese history books covering samurai, religion, war, pop culture and modern society, from ancient Japan to today.

Perhaps portending a tumultuous era ahead, unseasonably severe winter rain and a thunderstorm struck the Hayama imperial villa in Kanagawa Prefecture where the gravely ill Emperor Yoshihito was lying ...

TOKYO, April 18 (Reuters) - Japan's top buyer of Iranian crude Showa Shell Sekiyu KK has renewed its annual oil purchase deal with Iran but cut the volume in line with other Japanese refiners to ...

Hagoita (battledores) are traditional Japanese wooden paddles used to play hanetsuki (hitting a feathered shuttlecock), a game similar to badminton. Both the game and the paddles have existed since at ...

Japanese metals firm Showa Aluminum, part of New York fund, adds aluminum-related Mitsubishi Materials assets to its portfolio. New York-based Apollo Group is now involved in recycling more than 4.43 ...

Off Showa Station, Antarctica, Dec. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Antarctic research vessel Shirase carved its way through sea ice and reached a fast ice berthing point about 1,700 meters off Japan's Showa ...

THE YEARS slip away as one walks through the gates of Daiba Itchome Shotengai, a 1960s-themed shopping district in Tokyo’s bay area. Children munch on dagashi, cheap and old-fashioned Japanese snacks.