Viewing Japan as primarily an American problem, he examines the prospects, so vital to our entire Asiatic position, of creating a viable Japanese democracy. After presenting the difficulties inherent ...

“More recently,” added Higuchi, “beverage vending machines in Japan started with fresh juice vending machines, which boomed in the rapid economic growth era of the 1950s.” Higuchi’s marvelous digging ...

Takagi Akimitsu, one of the most prolific and well-known crime novelists of 20th century Japan, was also a brilliant photographer. A French book depicting his photos from 1950s Tokyo was ...

It was at a time when Americans' image of Japan, which was once an enemy country, was changing little by little. The following is a passage from one of Keene's autobiographies. The Japanese "boom ...