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People lay flowers at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial after a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary ceremony of the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 2025. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images))

Hiroshima remains an ongoing nightmare

Eric Ross - TomDispatch.com
Strawberry matcha (dontree_m/Getty Images )

Our matcha is sweet. The truth, bitter

Francesca Giangiulio
Sour candy for sale (Oliver Strewe / Getty Images )

I devoured Japan’s sourest sweets

Joy Saha
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami, in Miami, Florida on January 27, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump announces steep new tariffs

Alex Galbraith
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A group of strawberries surrounding an eaten one (Getty Images / Daniel Grizelj)

Are $25 luxury strawberries worth it?

Joy Saha
Green Matcha Tea (Getty Images/ASMR)

What are the health benefits of matcha?

Evangeline Mantzioris - The Conversation
The Contestant (Disney)

9 wild moments from "The Contestant"

Gabriella Ferrigine
U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

First non-American to walk on the Moon

Rae Hodge
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Toshiro Mifune (1920 - 1997, left), as Yoshi Toranaga, and American actor Richard Chamberlain as John Blackthorne, examine a samurai sword in the TV miniseries 'Shogun', 1980. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

How 1980's "Shogun" evoked Japanophilia

Melanie McFarland
Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii Toranaga in "Shogun" (Kurt Iswarienko/FX)

Shogun star: "We need that kind of hero"

Nancy Wang Yuen
Sugar iced Christmas fruit cake with Christmas decorations (Getty Images/robert reader)

How Christmas cakes became big in Japan

Ashlie D. Stevens
Happy senior man reading next to the Aegean sea (Getty Images/Anastasija Vujic)

Longevity advice from the blue zones

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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"Semantic Error" from South Korea (Rakuten Viki)

East beats West on queer TV love stories

Hanh Nguyen
Storm Cloud Over A Farm (Getty Images/sakchai vongsasiripat)

Microplastics are in the clouds

Matthew Rozsa
Movie posters for Barbie and Oppenheimer are pictured outside of the Cinemark Somerdale 16 and XD in Somerdale, New Jersey, 2023. (Hannah Beier for the Washington Post)

WB says sorry to Japan for Barbenheimer

Nardos Haile
Plan 75 (KimStim)

Dystopian euthanasia for the elderly

Gary M. Kramer
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KFC Christmas meal boxes are pictured on December 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)

How KFC became Japan's go-to Xmas dinner

Joy Saha
Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings, March 10, 1945. The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9-10 March 1945 was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history. (Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

War crimes? We must not forget Tokyo

James M. Scott
Small child carrying shopping bags (Getty Images / MariaMikhaylichenko)

Why American parents love "Old Enough!"

Nicole Karlis
Minha Kim in "Pachinko" (Apple TV+)

Pachinko told me what my family couldn't

Iris Kim
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Pachinko (Apple TV+)

"Pachinko" is the season's must-see show

Melanie McFarland
Rahm Emanuel, former Mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff in the Obama White House, listens during a confirmation hearing before Senate Foreign Relations Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Emanuel will become the next U.S. Ambassador to Japan if confirmed by the Senate. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rahm Emanuel tells Senate a big lie

Jeff Cohen
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Getty/Matthew Stockman)

Will Democrats really confirm Emanuel?

Norman Solomon
Samurai Gourmet (Netflix)

It's a "Samurai Gourmet" summer

Ashlie D. Stevens
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