For the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli, IndieWire talks to two leading experts on the Japanese animation film studio's ...

The year 2024 marks the centenary of the Johnson-Reed Act, which blocked all immigration from Japan to the United States. An overview of the movement of Japanese people to America. This year marks ...

In the meme time, here’s an ultra informal timeline of Japan’s border reopening scheme from January 2022 onwards. (You can find a more detailed rundown of Japan’s border rules here).

Christianity first arrived in Japan in 1549, but was banned for some 250 years during the Edo period (1603–1868). A look at the history of the faith on the Japanese islands. Statistics from the ...

The apparent unwinding of Japan-South Korea security ties was one of several recent developments that converged to generate a crisis in bilateral relations. CSIS created a timeline of events ...

On Sunday, two photos of Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe ... think for the umpteenth time that this is the worst timeline of all the possible timelines. We’re in the one ...

A Japanese military history buff has found library records showing a photo supposedly depicting Amelia Earhart survived a crash landing in 1937 was actually published two years before the famous ...

Internet memes often feel like they come out of nowhere ... Justin Bieber's "favorite video on the internet." Here's a timeline of how "PPAP" rose up the viral ranks in 2016.

In it, a cloaked man waving a knife told the Japanese people to pressure their government to pay or the men would die. Online, the country's Twitter users have responded. With a meme. The ...

Yet, unlike so many memes, this one hasn't vanished from the face of the internet. In Japan, for better or worse, it's become the go-to meme for news and threads involving homosexuality.

KnowYourMeme pieced together a timeline: It started in 2004, on 2chan.net, a so-called imageboard in Japan that allows users to post images anonymously — essentially a petri dish for meme ...

600s Once Japan unified in 600, the country was ruled by a samurai class during the Heian period (794-1603) and a feudal military dictatorship. 794 Under the Heian Period, the samurai class of ...