When Tokyo Burned

View Comments () In 1943, at Dugway Proving Ground, southwest of Salt Lake City, the U.S. Army built a Japanese village with rows of Japanese-styled homes, furnished with tatami mats and paper screens ... ( read original story ...)

Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan

The well-known nineteenth-century British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for example, lampooned what he considered a French over-reliance on books for training engineers, advising his ... ( read original story ...)