After Nagasaki snubs Israeli ambassador from A-bomb commemoration, G7 envoys decide they’ll skip too
Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki said he wanted to ensure ‘a peaceful and solemn atmosphere’ at ceremony
Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki said he wanted to ensure ‘a peaceful and solemn atmosphere’ at ceremony
In her diary, the actress Shoshana Kahan described how difficult it was to find eggs to make the matzah balls
Theories abound as to why the 81-year-old artist has started covering Grateful Dead tunes
Kristina Reiko Cooper conceived 'A Concert for Sugihara' while grappling with the 'mass displacement of refugees' today
The American Jewish Committee called Abe ‘an unstinting ally to the Jewish people and Israel,’ saying: ‘we have lost a dear friend’
It’s Jake Adelstein’s first week as a reporter at The Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Tokyo’s biggest newspapers, and the protagonist of “Tokyo Vice,” a new crime miniseries from HBO, is already questioning how things are done. Jake (Ansel Elgort) is covering a stabbing, and he writes that the victim was murdered — as he certainly…
I was in sixth grade when I first heard about “the greatest anime of all time,” an epic of teen angst and robot-on-monster violence called “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” I can’t remember the name of the kid who told me about it — only that he was a grade older and I very much wanted his…
Shortly after a tsunami devastated Japan in March 2011, Andrew Scheer gathered up food and supplies from where he lived on the Upper West Side and traveled there. The March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami pummeled northeastern Japan, particularly the region of Fukushima—where a nuclear reactor melted down. It spiraled into an unprecedented crisis. Japan’s…
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