The Japanese economy shrank 1.8 percent from the same quarter last year as U.S. tariffs dampened automobile exports and prompted a bleak outlook for growth. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo ...
Kitaoka Fumio, "Going through a Village (Buraku otōru)" (1947), woodcut (all photos courtesy University of Chicago Press) The period between 1945 and 1952 was an odd one in Japan’s history. The ...