10+ hour, 33+ min ago  (76+ words) Japan's mighty warship Yamato reinvented at microscopic level" By HARUKA KOBAYASHI/ Staff Writer October 19, 2025 at 07:00 JST The microscopic model of the wartime battleship Yamato has a width of just 0.039 millimeter, roughly half the thickness of a strand of hair. (Provided…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (743+ words) March 6, 2026 at 11:55 JST HONOLULU--The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the'USS Arizona was bombed'during the Japanese'attack on Pearl Harbor'and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery. It's part of an effort…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (472+ words) January 29, 2026 at 18:30 JST Akira Iriye, a Harvard University professor emeritus and a leading scholar on the history of international relations, died on Jan. 27. He was 91. After earning his doctorate from Harvard in 1961, Iriye began a distinguished academic career in the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (400+ words) January 13, 2026 at 17:44 JST Freelance announcer Hiroshi Kume, who was known for his outspoken criticism of politicians and other public figures, passed away from lung cancer on Jan. 1. He was 81." Kume joined Tokyo Broadcasting System Television Inc. (TBS) as an announcer…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1047+ words) By TOMOKO YAMASHITA/ Senior Staff Writer December 30, 2025 at 07:00 JST Nobuko Rena Nakayama tells accounts of her life in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in October. (Shota Tomonaga) Nobuko Rena Nakayama says she still suffers from an identity crisis after being forced to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (704+ words) By MASATO TAINAKA/ Staff Writer December 8, 2025 at 16:07 JST Yoshihiro Yakushige, right, hands over the request to add two American POWs to the list of Osaka air raid victims to Hisako Mori, left, director of the Osaka International Peace Center, which…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (499+ words) November 14, 2025 at 11:50 JST BEIJING--Japan is trying to revive its wartime militarism and repeat the mistakes of history with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan, China's top newspaper, People's Daily, said on Friday. Takaichi sparked a diplomatic row with…...

4+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (472+ words) November 18, 2025 at 15:41 JST HIROSHIMA" Local officials plan to carry out the city's first DNA analysis on remains from the atomic bombing, seeking to identify victims who have remained'unclaimed for 80 years. The test will focus on the preserved hair of a…...

5+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (400+ words) October 21, 2025 at 12:30 JST In 1995, I saw for the first time what a blazing conflagration, feeding on popular outrage, could look like. The scene was televised from the city of Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture, where 85,000 citizens packed a field to protest…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (483+ words) January 31, 2022 at 12:53 JST "This is not your land," a citizen shouted angrily. It was many years ago. The site where a U.S. military helicopter had crashed on the campus of Okinawa International University was so fraught with tension that the least…...