Japan, situated on the volatile Ring of Fire, experiences frequent earthquakes, with major events like the 1923 Kanto, 1995 ...
In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...
Introduction: The Representation of Japanese History in Manga / Roman Rosenbaum -- Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu's Phoenix / Rachael Hutchinson -- Reading Shōwa ...