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What happened on the fateful night of June 21st, 1582, that caused one of Oda Nobunaga's faithful retainers to turn on him?
Were Japan's World War II-era kimonos depicting images of war a propaganda tool - or a natural outpouring of support?
Kore-eda Hirokazu is back with his first Japanese-language film in five years - a rumination on our limited perception of the lives of others.
How scammers steal tens of millions of dollars in Japan every year - and coerce desperate young people into doing their dirty work for them.
A Japanese t-shirt company and its unusual CEO are doing business differently - and the employees seem to dig it.
She was a symbol of prewar prosperity - and controversy. How the "modern girl" of Japan's roaring 1920s defined a new path for women.

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