The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

In the bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.

On a cold and bitter plain one day last week 28-year-old Henry Pu Yi, last of the Manchus, stood in dragon-embroidered robes, worshipped at the Altar of Heaven, and returning to his small ...

朝日新聞に掲載の記事・写真の無断転載を禁じます。すべての内容は日本の著作権法並びに国際条約により保護されています。 Nao(ki) Hoshino was the ...

Chinese Manchuria, occupied by Japan in the 1930s and 40s, left a scar on China's history. The countries’ current leaders, Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping, share ancestral connections to conflicts ...

We will talk about the dynasty he belonged to - the Qing, his period as the emperor in 1908-1912, Chinese Revolution, how he became the puppet ruler of Manchukuo under the Japanese during World ...

The biography of the SoftBank CEO is a behind-the-scenes look at how Son defied conventional wisdom to push global tech and ...

takarabe toriko is one of japan’s most eminent poets. She was born in 1933, in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, and two months after her birth went with her parents to live in Manchukuo, the puppet state ...