A good book should never go unread. So when Mitsuko Roberts began going through the many tomes in her Glendale home and tallied at least 200 Japanese books, it bothered her that so many were sitting ...

LEUVEN, Belgium (Mainichi) -- Emperor Naruhito is set to visit the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) with Belgian ...

The sound of small voices yelling “konichiwa” – Japanese for hello – drifted out of the small children’s room in the University Park Library. Inside the room, colorful patchwork quilts hung on the ...

A former city hall in Mie Prefecture by Junzo Sakakura, a Japanese architect who worked for Le Corbusier, is revitalized with a new use.

Yonekazu Satoda was confined at an assembly center in Fresno awaiting transfer to the Jerome Relocation Center, a swampy and barren internment camp in Arkansas, when he noted a missed milestone in his ...

Jubilee REACH broke ground this week on a new Japanese library on their campus. “This miracle never would have happened at any place other than Jubilee REACH. What a wonderful moment for us!” said one ...

What may be one of the largest collections of Japanese literature in the Verdugo region is kept inside the home of a local resident who, about two days per month, welcomes guests to her home where ...

Naomi Hirahara didn’t shy away from “airing the dirty laundry” of 1940s Japanese internment camps and the migration to Chicago in her book, “Clark and Division,” and she attracted hundreds of area ...