Kitaoka Fumio, "Going through a Village (Buraku otōru)" (1947), woodcut (all photos courtesy University of Chicago Press) The period between 1945 and 1952 was an odd one in Japan’s history. The ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCORD, Wash. -- At 91 Donnie Weeks, a self-proclaimed "hard-nosed conservative from South Dakota," has one mission: share her story of living in occupied Japan and the life-long ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

I’ve just returned from two weeks touring the art and temples of Japan’s Inland Sea. We visited Osaka, Okayama, Takamatsu, Shikoku and the incredible “Art Island” of Naoshima, where the Chichu Museum ...

FILE - In this undated photo, a turret from an old tank set in the ground as a part of war fortifications in front of a lighthouse near Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashiri Island, one of the Kuril Chain, ...

A chance find in Japan provides a glimpse at how children experienced the country's post-war occupation. Used in menko, a traditional Japanese card game played by children, the vintage playing cards ...

On the weekend of Sept. 28-30, the National Occupied Japan Collectors Club will meet in Gardendale from all over the United States. Hosting the event is Beverly Atkins who lives in Trussville, but ...