I’ve just returned from two weeks touring the art and temples of Japan’s Inland Sea. We visited Osaka, Okayama, Takamatsu, Shikoku and the incredible “Art Island” of Naoshima, where the Chichu Museum ...

When Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers on Aug. 14, 1945, it became an occupied country until April 28, 1952. Even though the occupation was to have been a joint effort of the Allies it was the ...

Question: This is a photo of a pair of porcelain figurines that belonged to my grandmother. Each man is playing a musical instrument, and they all are wearing 18th-century clothes. The overall height ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCORD, Wash. -- At 91 Donnie Weeks, a self-proclaimed "hard-nosed conservative from South Dakota," has one mission: share her story of living in occupied Japan and the life-long ...

On the weekend of Sept. 28-30, the National Occupied Japan Collectors Club will meet in Gardendale from all over the United States. Hosting the event is Beverly Atkins who lives in Trussville, but ...

Combing the far reaches of the Pacific from sun-baked atolls to the main islands of Japan, a vast mop-up operation is reclaiming millions of dollars in vehicular equipment for use for Far East Command ...

A chance find in Japan provides a glimpse at how children experienced the country's post-war occupation. Used in menko, a traditional Japanese card game played by children, the vintage playing cards ...

Art history has struggled to address a contradictory artistic output that engaged with Japan’s modernization and occupation, a new book argues. Kitaoka Fumio, "Going through a Village (Buraku otōru)" ...

General Douglas MacArthur is credited with starting one of the 21st century’s hottest collecting trends. When four-year-long World War II ended in 1945, President Harry Truman appointed MacArthur ...

FILE - In this undated photo, a turret from an old tank set in the ground as a part of war fortifications in front of a lighthouse near Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashiri Island, one of the Kuril Chain, ...