HISTORY
Video: The Colonization of Hokkaido
Watch our latest video - a reading by author Noah Oskow of his original essay on the history of Hokkaido and how…
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HISTORY
Watch our latest video - a reading by author Noah Oskow of his original essay on the history of Hokkaido and how…
HISTORY
In 1891 Japan, history was nearly changed when a Japanese policeman took aim at Russian Crown Prince Nicholas II - the future…
HISTORY
In the Edo era, when setting foot on foreign soil was punishable by death, 16 castaways risked it all in an epic…
CULTURE
Japan's native Ainu residents will receive financial support from the government for the first time - a move that has some right-wing…
POLITICS
Amidst rising anti-Korean discourse in Japan thanks to worsening trade relations, another issue is taking headlines: freedom of speech.
HISTORY
The story of how, for a brief period of time, the island of Karafuto controlled by Russia became an official part of…
FEATURED
How Japan's discovery of a large northern island devastated the island's native population - and how Japan lost control when Russia muscled…
CULTURE
After all these years, the Japanese government officially recognized the Ainu. Here's why the Ainu can't take them seriously.