By SHUNSUKE ABE/ Staff Writer
October 2, 2019 at 13:35 JST
Stuffed animals are offered at an altar for Yua Funato, the 5-year-old girl who died of physical abuse and parental neglect, in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward in March 2018. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The stepfather of a 5-year-old girl subjected to months of physical abuse and neglect admitted he caused her death during the first hearing in the case before lay judges at the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 1. [Read More]
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Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series on the death of a Japanese woman that sparked a debate about criminal justice policy in the United States
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.
