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"Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht) survivor George Shafi, who will be 95 on Nov. 29 in front of the Neue Synagoge in Berlin on Thursday
WORLD
Nov 9, 2026
‘Last generation’: ‘Kristallnacht’ survivor, 94, bears witness
Violence the Nazi regime unleashed on Nov. 9 to 10, 1938, saw at least 90 Jewish people killed and 1,400 synagogues set alight across Germany.
Shigeko Miyoshi receives the remains of her brother Toshiaki Wakamoto in the city of Hiroshima on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 4, 2026
Family receives remains of Hiroshima A-bomb victim 81 years after his death
It marks the first time Hiroshima returned the remains of an atomic bomb victim whose name had been found to be recorded incorrectly in its registry.
A tombstone for those who have no relatives stands near the Chosei coal mine in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 2023.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2026
Japan and South Korea agree to cooperate over remains from undersea mine
Workers from the Korean Peninsula were among victims of a 1942 flooding at the Chosei coal mine in the city of Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2026
Hillary Clinton visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Clinton said that as many people as possible should visit the museum, according to a former governor of Hiroshima Prefecture who guided.
Demonstrators take part in a protest organized by student collectives and trade unions in Paris on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Will France’s mass protests and riots spread across the globe?
France’s waves of unrest reveal social and economic tensions while raising concerns that far-right forces could exploit public discontent elsewhere.
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Tatsunori Ibayashi visited Tokyo’s war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Monday during its autumn festival as part of a cross-party group.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 19, 2026
Second minister visits Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival
Liberal Democratic Party General Council chair Hiroshi Kajiyama also made a ritual cash offering on behalf of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made a ritual tree stand offering to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2026
Takaichi makes ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine
The prime minister is expected to skip a visit to the Shinto shrine during the three-day festival, which runs through Monday.
In Miwa Nishikawa's "Children Untold," Fumi Nikaido (right) plays a former schoolteacher on the hunt for her erstwhile pupil (Aoi Koyae, left) in the aftermath of World War II.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 10, 2026
‘Children Untold’ shines a light on the plight of postwar orphans
Miwa Nishikawa’s “Children Untold” tells a Dickensian tale of Japanese orphans in the aftermath of World War II.
Visitors pray at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2026
Nihon Hidankyo hears calls to pass cause to second generation
About 80 hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombings, and other representatives of constituent groups from across Japan attended the meeting in Tokyo.
On Oct. 24, 1926, the front page of The Japan Times featured the opening of Meiji Jingu Stadium. The ceremony was presided over by then-Prince Regent Hirohito, two months before his enthronement.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Oct 1, 2026
Japan Times 1926: Meiji Shrine baseball park opens
Also in the archives, the Lower House approves peace and security treaties and an SDF antiterrorism bill wins quick Diet passage.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a ceremony to mark Martyrs' Day, a day ahead of the Chinese National Day, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Wednesday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 30, 2026
China says Taiwan ‘desecrating the martyrs’ with its WWII history criticism
China’s government accused Taiwan of “desecrating the martyrs” with its criticism of Beijing’s interpretation of WWII.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te speaks in front of a Teng Yun unmanned aerial vehicle during a visit to the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology in Taichung, Taiwan, on July 17.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 28, 2026
Taiwan pushes back after Xi seeks to win over Trump on WWII narrative
Taipei says the version of events Beijing is promoting is distorted, given that the Republic of China was the government at the time.
Live footage of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is displayed on a large screen as she addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 24, 2026
China pushes back against Takaichi’s call to remove ‘enemy state’ wartime label
Beijing has portrayed the United Nations Charter as a continuing safeguard against Japanese militarism rather than an obsolete relic of World War II.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is resuming a campaign to root out the surviving influence of Koreans who collaborated with imperial Japan.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 24, 2026
Ha Young’s Netflix exit exposes South Korea’s unfinished reckoning with its colonial past
Ha Young’s experience underscores how unsettled the question of how to reckon with colonial-era collaboration remains in South Korea.
Remains of unidentified Japanese people who died abroad during World War II are interred at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2026
Japan returns wrongly collected remains to Kazakhstan and Myanmar
The move followed the revelation in 2019 that foreign people’s remains had been confused with those of Japanese people detained in Russia after WWII.
A document titled "Study of Details of Martial Law Operations Based on Assumptions (Draft)," prepared by the Eastern District Army and held by the Defense Ministry's National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2026
Imperial Japanese Army secretly considered martial law in 1945, document says
The considerations were made during the final stages of World War II amid concerns that U.S. air raids would severely disrupt public order.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
In first U.N. speech, Takaichi calls for removal of 今日吃瓜 wartime ‘enemy state’ label
Beijing has latched on to the clause in its row with Tokyo, insisting it remains legally binding and serves as safeguard of the postwar order.
Adelaida Kakazu
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2026
Philippine-born woman plans first visit to father’s native Okinawa
The 90-year-old second-generation Japanese woman was separated from her father after World War II.
Tomoko Ishikawa holds an old photograph showing children performing a welcome dance for a “blue-eyed doll” at Osu Elementary School in Nagoya.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Chubu
Sep 21, 2026
A century on, search continues for Nagoya’s missing ‘blue-eyed dolls’
No American dolls gifted in 1927 have been found in Nagoya, despite the belief the city had received 101 of them as part of an exchange with the U.S.
An aerial view of Palau Port in Koror, the island nation's main maritime gateway. Palau will become the U.S. military's top overseas location for construction next year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2026
U.S. military buildup in Palau stirs war fears
Plans to rebuild the main port in the pristine Pacific archipelago have stirred painful memories of World War II and have locals concerned.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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