How do people think about the dropping of the atomic bombs in general in the United States? Perhaps the representative opinion would be, “The military decision to use nuclear weapons agai...

  Q: How do people think about the droppings of the atomic bombs in general in the United States? A: Attitudes in the United States have evolved somewhat over the years. Initially after the bomb ...

  Q: How do historians judge the past? A: Writing history is still much more of an art than a science. Historians don’t come to final conclusive judgments that represent “the judgment...

  Q: Have you ever heard MacArthur’s testimony after WWII at the Senate Foreign Committee? He testified that Japan fought in the war largely for security reasons. Have you ever heard of tha...

  Q: Firstly, I’d like to ask you what makes you so interested in Japanese history? A: Well, I guess it goes quite a ways back. I was interested as a boy. I think the first sort of real thi...

  70 Years after WW2   Japan Must Restore Its National Pride, and the U.S. Should Reflect on Its Mistakes “Reflecting on the past” is different from “apologizing”. Re...

See the press conference here. In May, Japan asked UNESCO to add “Battleship Island” and other historical sites to its world heritage list. China and South Korea met this request with prot...

The Cold War between the U.S.-Japan alliance and China has silently begun. 57 countries, excluding Japan and the U.S., have become members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) led by Chi...

  Editor’s Column   Japan’s Shinto Is a World Religion The 70th anniversary of the end of WW2 began with calm, yet it has become clear which countries refuse to reevaluate their ...

  Editor’s Column   Bringing the Cycle Of Violence to an End: ‘Forgiveness’ in the Middle East “To the Japanese government. You are like your foolish allies in the Sa...