For hundreds of years, samurai, a class of elite warriors, shaped Japanese history, and tales of their exploits and adventures remain the stuff of legends. One of the most fascinating and mysterious ...
In August 1945, John K. Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William Halsey’s USS “Missouri” ...
Located on the Pacific coast of Aomori Prefecture, the small city of Misawa has long been defined by its aviation heritage. In 1931, it was the takeoff point for the first successful nonstop ...
Throughout its history, the country has taken imports and changed them into something else entirely. By Pico Iyer Illustrations by Ilya Milstein A Japanese sentence is often as mongrel as a Japanese ...