The Aokigahara Forest of Honshu, Japan (also known interchangeably as the Sea of Trees and more insidiously, the Suicide Forest), is famous for its haunting history and reputation, some based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two Japanese-born pitchers, Shota Imanaga of the Chicago Cubs and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers, were among the top free agents this past MLB offseason. So far, the two players are ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman , a local San Diegan shares their family's history of migration and incarceration during World War two. A Story of Resilience. This is KPBS Midday Edition.

Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former “comfort women,” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the ...

By 1900, at least 700 Japanese had reached the state, the Rev. Hiram Kano wrote in his “A History of the Japanese in Nebraska.” As the years passed, and Japanese immigration increased, so did racial ...

With the end of 2015, a year of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the curtain closes on another chapter in the recurring historical debates in Northeast Asia. Despite ...

This example of an early 19th century Japanese junk looks much like the one a Japanese typhoon severely damaged in 1832 and blew away from the island and into the Pacific Ocean. There it drifted for ...