THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 18, 2020 at 16:20 JST
Tourists crowd a shopping area in Tokyo’s Asakusa district. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Despite a bitter diplomatic row with South Korea and a drop in tourists from that nation, records were broken in 2019 for the number of foreign tourists coming to Japan and the amount they spent. [Read More]
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A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
