Tsushima Maru Memorial Museum Naha

対馬丸記念館 The moving Tsushima Maru Memorial Museum in Naha , Okinawa is dedicated to the victims (mostly children) of the sinking of…

Little Britain Kumano Mie

英国兵士墓地 Just off national highway 311 in the mountains inland from Kumano city in the south of Mie Prefecture stands a small memo…

The US and the history wars in Asia

Jeffrey Bader, former senior director for Asia at the National Security Council earlier in the Obama administration, has drawn at…

Falls The Shadow

There is a scroll hanging in Japan Society’s Gallery for The Sound of One Hand called Nin . It is a simple calligraphic painting…

Peace Loving Brides Of War

Shortly after World War II, American GI’s married the girlfriends they’d met in the countries where they were sent to fight. A lo…