Japan

Steven Pursley’s restaurant, Menya Rui, was recently recognized by Sauce Magazine as the top new restaurant to open in St. Louis in 2022.

Check out two local opportunities to learn about the era of Japanese internment camps: "Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II" exhibit at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, and a multimedia performance of "Improvisations on EO9066" by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 17.

Retired Lindenwood University professor Suzanne Sakahara was just six years old when she witnessed two FBI agents enter her house on Vashon Island,…

The Saint Louis Art Museum’s current exhibit “Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan” highlights an underappreciated category of Japanese…

Governor Pat Quinn departs today for the annual Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference, where he will speak with Japanese business leaders. The…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 11, 2013 - Chikako Usui, was born and raised in Ojaki, in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan, about…

View Locations of found radiation from Japan in IL in a larger mapThe map above depicts the locations highlighted in the following story where trace…

View Callaway nuclear power plant in a larger mapMissouri’s sole nuclear power plant was built to handle “worst case” natural disasters.That’s what Ameren…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 17, 2011 - About this time of year 16 years ago, I went to Japan to cover a tour of the St.…

In the wake of the nuclear reactor crisis in Japan, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill says the United States should re-evaluate the risks of nuclear…