Critics in Japan see Yasukuni as a symbol of a militarist past and ... Emperor Hirohito, in whose name Japanese soldiers fought the war, visited Yasukuni eight times between the conflict’s ...

Takashi Yamazaki: For me, Godzilla is a symbol of war and nuclear destruction ... It’s quite natural for us Japanese. Yamazaki: It is possible we are making something very domestic.

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That’s about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan’s ...

For over seventy years, Japan’s constitution has remained untouched, a symbol of a reformed ... that the Japanese people will never again resort to war to solve international disputes.