A police investigation has been launched after graffiti was daubed on a building in Osaka written in protest at Israel's ...

Tezuka and Sakai’s work sparked an extraordinary boom in Osaka. In addition to the old guard of publishing companies that had been in business since before the war, small toy companies began ...

In the winter of Showa 62 (1987), the muddy conflict between Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Kobe Yamagagumi, and the Seiwakai—commonly referred to as the "Yamasho War ...

The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears unlikely ...

At the 9th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW), hosted by HWPL and held across 93 ...

These foot soldiers of Japan's economic boom helped rebuild Osaka, heavily bombed during the Pacific War, and later prepared the city for the 1970 World Expo, which, six years after the Tokyo ...

In 1991, spurred by the Gulf War, Matsuura joined her older brother, a priest in the Catholic Archdiocese of Osaka, in founding "Hands for Peace," an organization protecting refugees' human rights.

Curated from high quality live recordings made as the band toured Japan including Shizuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe, War’s Live In Japan 1974 is a killer package.