Japan
History has been witness to a lot of prosperous towns and flourishing cities in the world, which have now been rendered uninhabited. Ghost towns (or cities), as people like to call them, these abandoned places ...
Kamikaze is a Japanese word that loosely translates to ‘divine wind‘ or ‘spirit wind’. The word was used to describe two storms that saved Japan twice from invading Mongol fleets under the fifth Khagan of ...
Japan is a simply wonderful country. Although being there for only a short time there is no doubt in my mind that this opinion would be echoed by anyone who visits any of Japan’s 6,852 ...
Osamu Tezuka, also known as the ‘Walt Disney of Japan’ was a renowned manga craftsman, sketch artist, artist, and filmmaker. He was born on 3rd November 1928, in Toyonaka, Osaka (Japan). His productive yield, spearheading strategies, ...
Unit 731 started out as a research unit that investigated the effects of disease and injury based on the army’s fighting ability. Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research undertaken by the ...
A walk in the classy Ginza district of the Japanese capital of Tokyo can bring a visitor to one of the rare architectural marvels of the world that is now in a very sorry state. ...
The bombings of Hiroshima not only left the city in shambles but also left the shadow of victims that were burnt without leaving their traces behind. When Enola Gay dropped bombs on two Japanese cities ...
Old age has been an anathema since times immemorial, yet there is no escaping it. Human society always dealt with ‘death’ in a benign and a socially relevant way, but aberrations happen in on ground ...
Taking one’s own life or attempting suicide is a criminal offence in many countries; but in the 12th century feudal Japan, in a highly ritualized ceremony, noble military warriors or samurais, as they are known, ...
