Chushingura

Gift shop owner seeking owner of WWII Hinomaru flag
Yoichi Koizumi with the Japanese flag given to him by a Dutchman (Kazuya Omuro)
The owner of a gift shop in front of Sengakuji temple in Tokyo is seeking to return a Hinomaru flag that was apparently given to a Japanese soldier to commemorate his dispatch...
"Chushingura" may be 97% fiction, but it ranks...
The raid by the 47 "ronin" is enacted every year in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, the home of Asano Takuminokami, and other locations across the nation. (Yoshiaki Arai)
It's that time of year again for "Chushingura," a fictionalized telling of a classic tale of revenge that ranks among the most familiar of all stories in Japan. Even though we...
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