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Solemn monument to Japanese American WWII detainees lists more than 125,000 names
As long as you had one drop of Japanese blood in you, the government told you you didn’t belong,” Williams said. The Irei project was inspired by stone Buddhist monuments called Ireitōs that ...
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This 16th century castle, a symbol of Japanese architecture, is one of the oldest still standing in the country
In Nagano province, the black silhouette of Matsumoto Castle stands out against the snowy horizon of the Japanese Alps. This ...
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Pearl Harbor monument to house Japan’s ‘Flame of Peace’
Dec. 7 marks 83 years since the Imperial Japanese forces launched a surprise ... She became the model for the Children’s Peace Monument that stands in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
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Monument erected in Miyagi to remember officials who died in March 2011
The monument inscribes the names of 37 town officials who died while working following the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, including by calling on residents ...
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Japan’s national monument, an endangered rat, to be shown at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park Zoo
TOKYO - An endangered rat that is also a natural monument of Japan will be on public display at Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino, Tokyo, from March 18. The Amami spiny rat, or Amami togenezumi in ...