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Articles about Japanese history
On Suki Desu, Japanese history brings together periods, wars, reforms and the thread from one era to the next.
Giant Baba was not only a towering star in the ring. He built All Japan Pro Wrestling into a lasting home for some of puroresu’s...
Wrestler, promoter, and politician, Inoki made puroresu feel like a test of pride, endurance, and nerve.
What history can confirm, where legend begins, and why his book is still read.
The Tokkyū trains and their place in Japanese railway history.
A country shaped by tradition, discipline and constant reinvention.
An era where Japan's cultural foundations started to take shape.
Lost treasure legends from Japan, from wartime gold to famous relics.
From Japan's first shogunate to the Mongol invasions
How the Korean peninsula helped shape Japanese culture over time.
How the traditional count treats Jingū, the two courts of the fourteenth century, and the dates copied from the Nihon Shoki.
Rank on the ox cart, allegiance on the banner, and the crest on a formal kimono.
An in-depth guide to the history, rigorous artistic training, and cultural traditions of Japan's geishas and Kyoto's geiko.
Shaking is common in Japan. The disasters that killed on a huge scale each had a cause you can prepare for.
A campaign speech outside a train station, a homemade gun, and the Nara court sentence.
Ashigaru, wakō pirates, and the Shimazu retreat: what the list changes in the warrior image.
Religion, society, law and the media: where does Japan stand on homosexuality today?
Studios, occupation rules, the 1950s production peak, and the titles that first traveled abroad.
Nakamura, Onoda, and Yokoi show three different endings to a war Japan had already lost in 1945.
History explains the tension, but it does not turn whole nations into enemies.
A clear look at Unit 731, the experiments in Pingfang, and the legacy of Japan's wartime biological warfare program.
From the 1868 Restoration to defeat in 1945 — how Japan rose to become Asia's great power and how that rise ended.
How a constitutional monarchy slipped from the 1929 crash into a fifteen-year war it could not win.
How a virtual girl from a computer became a global pop phenomenon
A black-and-white newsreel parody aimed at Imperial Japan.
