Period of Sengoku in Japan (1467-1573)

Historian consider period of Sengoku to have begun as early as 1467, with the beginning of the Onin War. In 1467, a decade-long......

Vintage Japan

Japanese (9th Reg. 4th Div.) ready for battle - awaiting orders for the advance - siege of Port Arthur, 1905  ......

No Amelia Earhart was not a prisoner of the Japanese

The MagicsThis is one of those moments that makes me, as an amateur historian cry inside, because stories like this grow......

Vintage Japan

Japanese music - mendicant friars play, 1935   The most distinguished family in the fishing village  Theatre......

Vintage Japan

Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - along the Old Avenue, Nara, Japan, ca. 1906   Japanese mothers......

Japan

These are from the Library of Congress Stereograph Collection.Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - along......

Last Japanese Soldier to Surrender in World War II

One of my favorite stories from history is that of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer in World War II who was......