Southwest Japan nonprofit seeks funds for museum on Edo period Italian missionary Sidotti
Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the ...
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Shiroyama, the Epic Battle That Marked the End of the Samurai
Some time ago, we published an article titled Saigō Takamori, the True Story of the Last Samurai, recounting the story of ...
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‘Neo-sakoku’: how has Japan’s border experiment worked?
Japan’s strict zero-Covid policy has been dubbed “neo-sakoku” – a reference to the “sakoku” policy the country adopted between the 17th and 19th centuries, when it severed almost all ...