In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman , a local San Diegan shares their family's history of migration and incarceration during World War two. A Story of Resilience. This is KPBS Midday Edition.

Tokyo Trial. As a landmark judicial event in the aftermath of World War II, the trial has exerted a profound influence on modern international criminal law and the evolution of the international order ...

Last week’s column recounted one of the darkest periods in U.S. and Arizona history — the forced internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Not only was Arizona one of seven states that operated ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as “poison” for whitewashing ...

With the end of 2015, a year of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the curtain closes on another chapter in the recurring historical debates in Northeast Asia. Despite ...

DETROIT -- When Mary Kamidoi and her sister were recruited from Flint Business College to work in the accounting department at Ford Motor Company in 1951, they were among the first Japanese American ...

This example of an early 19th century Japanese junk looks much like the one a Japanese typhoon severely damaged in 1832 and blew away from the island and into the Pacific Ocean. There it drifted for ...