When Japan found itself in desperate straits in 1943, it used the one untapped resource it had left: its college youth. A former soldier tells how he survived – and the permanent damage it etched into his soul.
From defending castles to outraging society, Yamamoto Yae never met a battle she didn’t pick. Alyssa Fusek on one of Japan’s most iconoclastic warrior-women.
How a t-shirt worn by a boy band member might make the bad relations between South Korea and Japan even worse.
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