A monument was erected at the municipal office of Minamisanriku, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, on Sunday to commemorate ...

The rat is about 9-16 centimeters long and has spiny hairs among its brown and black fur. Read more at straitstimes.com.

As long as you had one drop of Japanese blood in you, the government told you you didn’t belong,” Williams said. The Irei project was inspired by stone Buddhist monuments called Ireitōs that ...

In March 2011, the deadly tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake tore off half the plaque from the monument, reducing its inscribed message to just a jumble of disjointed words.