The debate over the nuclear strikes on Japan during World War II will probably never end. As the U.S. and Japan try to forget the past and move ahead, one place U.S. President Barack Obama could not ...
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, whose work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador has taken her to conflict zones around the world for nearly ...
In her best-selling memoir Totto-chan, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi tells the story of how she was expelled from school as a first-grader for her disruptive behaviour, but eventually flourished at Tomoe Gakuen, ...
How can we convey the horrors of war to future generations and continue to reflect on what it means to live in the peaceful society that Japan is today? Are war-related anime, movies and other ...
Japanese pop-culture icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, whose bestselling autobiography Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, first published in 1981, did as much as any book to set the tone for Japan's ...
To say that Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's 1981 memoir Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window was a success would be a huge understatement. Decades later, it remains the best-selling book in the country's ...