Japan Archives - The American Scholar

Wave of Anguish

By Adam Hochschild | 09/05/2017 |

Could disobedience have saved a group of Japanese students?

Music for Winter

By Sudip Bose | 03/16/2017 |

Toru Takemitsu and suspended time

Almost Home

By Stephanie Bastek | 03/23/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Githa Hariharan’s new collection of travel essays

Taken to the Leader

By Bruce Cumings | 12/07/2015 |

Why did Pyongyang kidnap several dozen Japanese?

Road Show

By Sudip Bose | 03/04/2015 |

The woodblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige

Harvested, But Not Forgotten

By Jessica Wilde | 06/27/2013 |

A Monster at Large

By James Fallows | 09/04/2012 |

Crime, politics, and the vagaries of Japanese justice