TOKYO -- When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its ... been abolished, and the old buraku villages have largely faded away or been swallowed by Japan's sprawling metropolises.

The centuries-old Mercator projection is a notoriously inaccurate world map ... perfectly together helped Narukawa’s map design win the coveted Japanese Good Design Award.

These maps were captured in the waning days of World War II as the ... In the age-old tradition of cartographic copying, the Japanese often built on maps they’d captured from their foes, adding ...

Now, a copy of an old German map could help Tokyo legitimize its ... For decades, the scale of atrocities committed during World War II caused Japan to turn sharply away from nationalism.