Jews in Japan have equal rights with the rest of the population, although they are not citizens of the country and occupy no public offices, Prince Takamatsu, brother of the Emperor of Japan, who with ...

(JNS) As Israel this year marked 70 years of diplomatic relations with Japan, Haifa’s Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art last week launched a major art exhibit titled “Time Tunnel — Japan and the Jews,” ...

Almost as soon as the catastrophe in Japan began unfolding last Friday, Jewish groups scrambled to figure out how to get help to the area. In Israel, search-and-rescue organizations like ZAKA and ...

(JTA) When Kinori Sugihara Rosnow helped his Japanese national team clinch sixth place in the World Lacrosse Championship in 2018 by winning a crucial face-off, the game meant more to him than just a ...

Japan is also trying to elevate another World War II figure to hero status, but researchers don’t buy the story. YAOTSU, Japan (JTA) — Three years before the Olympics began in 2021, Tokyo was already ...

(JTA) — Japan’s far-right Sanseito party emerged triumphant in the country’s latest parliamentary election this week, signaling the rise of a nationalist, anti-immigrant movement with a history of ...

Statesmen’s Forum: HE Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Various Jewish groups expressed shock and grief over the assassination of ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A museum in Lithuania dedicated to a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe in the early years of World War II has been extended an economic lifeline by ...

As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were ...