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A Collection of Right-Wing Japanese Propaganda Buses
If you’ve ever spent any time in Japan, you’ve seen them: big black buses blaring right-wing propaganda. And today, you’re going to see an entire fleet of them. If Japanese more »
Seijin Shiki – Coming of Age Day
Coming of Age Day is a Japanese holiday held annually on the second Monday of January. It is held in order to congratulate and encourage all those who have reached more »
Ebessan Festival – Ebisu-jinja Shrine
Hyogo Shrine It seems the hopes and prayers of residents of the Kansai region centering on Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto are reflected in the festival of ‘Ebessan (Ebisu-san),’ the deity more »
Koukyo (The Imperial Palace)
The Koukyo, also called the ‘Gosho’, is the Emperor’s place of residence. Until the Meiji period the Imperial Palace had long been more »
How we learned to love the atom bomb
An allied correspondent standing in rubble before the shell of a building that once was a movie theatre in Hiroshima, Japan in September 1945. PAUL Ham is ready for a more »
