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...

Master Ryuho Okawa was born on July 7th, 1956 in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the prestigious University of Tokyo, he joined a Tokyo-based international trading company. While wo...

  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...

  Ms. Shaku at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris Last year, China nominated the “Nanjing Massacre” and the “Comfort Women” for inscription at the UNESCO Memory of the World...

Master Okawa recorded spiritual messages of Japanese soldiers that fought in the Greater East Asia War. They revealed what they were thinking when they went off to war, and and what their thoughts are...

In 2014, China nominated the “Nanjing Massacre” and the “Comfort Women” to be registered at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memor...