This Saturday marks the 83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as the nation honors the victims and survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, ...

Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan). With the adoption of Buddhism as the state ...

Six months later, over a three-day period in early June 1942, air crews from carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown sink ...

The conflict resulted in the Taira rising to power to form the first samurai-led government in the history of Japan. In 1180, the Minamoto clan resumed hostilities with the Taira in what became ...

Whether it was Nike's quest to perfect track spikes for the University of Oregon, Converse's introduction of the Chuck Taylor All-Star in the early 1900s or Asics' start as a Japanese basketball ...

Imaging Japanese History is an online curriculum designed to enhance students' visual literacy skills, historical thinking skills, and knowledge of Japanese history. Five online modules each provide a ...