The Lone Woman of Kokura

Photo of a family sitting on a couch around a table, on which a young boy is drawing. Two elderly people sit in the middle of the couch, flanked by two younger men, who are flanked by two younger women. Three young women stand behind the couch.

The Japanese Imperial Family Invented

A bright green, yellow, and red artistic representation of a seated Japanese Empress wearing flowing robes.

Japan’s Once and Future Female Emperors

Her Own Hero: How Self-Defense Became Acceptable for American Women

Black and white photo of adults and children lined up in front of a gazebo for a formal portrait

Cooperative Work and Public Health Nursing in Rural Wartime Japan

Sunday Morning Medicine

By Jacqueline Antonovich

-The Stockholm Syndrome turns 40.
-Nursery of the future (circa 1930s).
-The rise of the sex manual.
-19th-century men who killed their children.
-Prehistoric humans also hated bland food.
-Archivists work to preserve gay home movies.
-A midcentury map of American folklore.