Stories

Explore Taipei’s Japanese-era history as Taihoku, a city shaped by empire, colonial modernity, and memory that still lives in streets, buildings, and daily life.

Explore why war memorials in Asia feel quiet and restrained, shaped by civilian trauma, silence, unfinished wars, and landscapes that remember without spectacle.

Explore why wars in Asia are remembered locally rather than globally, shaped by colonial narratives, civilian suffering, silence, and places that carry unresolved history.

Discover why war memory in Asia is preserved through places rather than dates, shaped by civilian trauma, unfinished wars, silence, and landscapes that still carry history.

An in-depth analysis of why World War II is remembered differently in Asia than Europe, shaped by colonialism, civilian suffering, unresolved wars, and living landscapes.

Explore Kanchanaburi beyond the Death Railway through its layered World War II history, civilian suffering, prisoner labor, and the living landscape shaped by war.

Discover how World War II reshaped Okinawa through civilian suffering, memory, and silence, and explore the island beyond beaches through its living history.

Explore Chiran, the former kamikaze base where World War II ended for young pilots, and discover how memory, silence, and history shape this quiet town today.

Explore Nagasaki’s layered war history, from foreign encounters to atomic destruction, and discover a living city shaped by faith, silence, and survival beyond 1945.

Explore Hiroshima beyond the Peace Park through its layered history, wartime memory, postwar survival, and the living city that grew around unresolved trauma.