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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 91AV原创 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.
Watercolor paintings by Itaru Maruo, a student deployed to China by the Imperial Japanese Army who died in World War II, are now displayed at the Wadatsumi no Koe memorial museum in Tokyo.
JAPAN / History / FOCUS
Sep 10, 2026
Memories of students killed in World War II live on at Tokyo museum
The Wadatsumi no Koe museum holds numerous letters, diaries and other personal effects of young men mobilized to the front lines.
It will be the third consecutive year South Korea will be absent from the Sado Island Gold Mines memorial service, which honors workers at the now-defunct mines.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2026
South Korea to skip Sado mine memorial service for third year
It will be the third consecutive year of South Korea’s absence from the memorial service, which honors workers at the now-defunct mines.
A photo of the Nagasaki atomic bombing site taken shortly after the war, showing a white wooden post erected on a mound of earth. The date and photographer are unknown.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2026
Rare color photos of occupied Japan face being lost to time
Many rare color photos taken by U.S. service members after World War II are gradually being dispersed or lost over time, though some may contain historically significant scenes.
Attendees observe a moment of silence at a memorial service for victims of the Soviet internment in Siberia, on Sunday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2026
Detainees held in Siberia after World War II remembered in Tokyo
The memorial gathering, the 24th of its kind, was held on the 81st anniversary of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s secret order of internment issued on Aug. 23, 1945.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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