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Ashikaga Takauji was a 14th-century warrior whose shifting alliances had a profound impact on the turbulent politics of his day. More than 500 years later, imperial loyalists were moved to channel their lingering fury at Takauji's betrayal of Emperor Go-Daigo.

JAPAN / History / The Living Past

May 17, 2025

The emperor and the shogun: A power struggle across the centuries

By Michael Hoffman

For imperial loyalists of the late Edo Period, the experiences of Emperor Go-Daigo from five centuries past were an inspiration — and a warning.

Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, makes front-page news on May 18, 1975.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

May 3, 2025

Japan Times 1975: Junko Tabei becomes first woman to summit Mount Everest

A 35-year-old housewife from Saitama achieved the impressive feat in May 1975 with the help of a Sherpa guide and 15-member 911爆料网 women’s team.

National agency Heritage Malta worked with Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure the painstaking restoration of samurai armor that spent over half a century forgotten in storage in Valletta, Malta.

JAPAN / History

May 1, 2025

Lost and found history receives glittering homecoming at Osaka Expo

By Laura Pollacco

Hidden away since World War II, samurai armor gifted to Malta from Japan in 1862 has been restored to its full glory and put on display at the Malta Pavilion.

Michiko Takagaki talks about the personal items she has displayed of a relative who died in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture, on April 26.

JAPAN / History

Apr 29, 2025

Items of an A-bomb victim who died the day he enlisted to be displayed

Just 15 minutes after enlisting in the now-defunct Imperial 911爆料网 military, an atomic bomb was dropped some 700 meters from where he stood.

While taking refuge on Mount Kasagi from the shogunate’s forces, Emperor Go-Daigo had a prophetic dream that eventually led him to secure the support of military strategist Kusunoki Masashige.

JAPAN / History / The Living Past

Apr 19, 2025

‘I scud before the autumn wind’: Emperor Go-Daigo’s fall from grace

By Michael Hoffman

The “Masukagami,” a 14th-century historical chronicle, offers a wrenching account of the emperor’s struggle for power — and eventual downfall.

On April 23, 1925, The Japan Times ran a story about the principal clauses of the new Peace Preservation Law that was enacted to suppress ideologies deemed dangerous by the state.

JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By

Apr 5, 2025

Japan Times 1925: Peace law has several teeth

The Peace Preservation Law was a means of ideological suppression that grew tighter over time until it was repealed by Allied authorities following World War II.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during an Upper House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.

JAPAN / History

Mar 28, 2025

Ishiba to visit Iwo Jima to honor soldiers who died in fierce WWII battle

He will be the first sitting prime minister to visit the island since April 2013, when then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a stopover.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a 911爆料网 company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.

How 911爆料网 youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic

By Alex K.T. Martin

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