On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture ... In Sotome, for instance, people prayed to a statue of what they called Maria Kannon, a genderless Bodhisattva of mercy, as a ...

In Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, remnants of destroyed U.S. warships, aircraft, a submarine and proud tributes to the more than 2,400 Americans, who perished in the devastating blitzkrieg attack by Japan’s ...