In Capitalists Must Starve — a novel by Park Seolyeon, translated from Korean by Anton Hur — a labor activist climbs to the rooftop of a rubber factory in Pyongyang, Korea, using a makeshift rope fashioned out of twisted Japanese cotton,

pt. 1. Empire: occupied territories. Korea the colony and the poet Sowŏl / David R. McCann ; Writing the colonial self: Yang Kui's texts of resistance and national identity / Angelina C. Yee ; The development of official art exhibitions in Taiwan during ...

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SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told South Koreans on Sunday his "heart hurts" when he thinks of suffering and pain during Japanese colonial rule, in a nod to historical disputes that have soured relations between the two U.S ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial, paired with a special lecture series on the war’s final weeks in the Pacific. The 5,000-square-foot exhibit, No Turning Back ...

Sanae Takaichi’s historic ascent to the leadership could have significant repercussions for the country’s relationships with China, Russia, and the two Koreas.

Japanese vlogger Hayato Kato's 1.9 million followers are used to his funny clips about exploring China, where he has been living for several years. But on 26 July he surprised them with a sombre one. "I just watched a movie about the Nanjing Massacre," he ...