When the Paralympic Games close a week from now in Rio, the Japanese flag will be raised and all eyes will look towards Tokyo. They were doing the same exactly 80 years ago when the Berlin Olympics of ...
The 1940 Games, scheduled for Japan, were returned to the I.O.C. because of a war against China and political infighting, rather than a pandemic. By Ken Belson TOKYO — The exhibits in the Japan ...
McLEAN, Va. — There were too many people on deck for him to see the Japanese officials walk onto the USS Missouri, but Robert Kaufman remembers watching them surrender. Hundreds of men from dozens of ...
July 24 -- the date planned for this year's Olympic Games' opening ceremony -- has come and gone, having been rescheduled to July 23, 2021, coronavirus situation permitting. Eighty years ago, Tokyo ...
Sunao Katabuchi pulled a book out of his bag and held it up to the audience at a recent screening of his film “In This Corner of the World.” It was ratty, folded and in pieces, because for six years, ...
As originally published in the Oct. 4, 1945, Emmett Index. Remember the reports of the Japanese balloons passing over Emmett, late in 1944 and early in 1945 with no mention of them made in Emmett ...
Tama, a car model produced at a factory in western Tokyo, was at the forefront of Japan’s electric vehicle (EV) market decades before the term “global warming” was even coined. Marked by its light ...
July 24 -- the date planned for this year's Olympic Games' opening ceremony -- has come and gone, having been rescheduled to July 23, 2021, coronavirus situation permitting. Eighty years ago, Tokyo ...