THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 20, 2019 at 18:30 JST
Residents try to clean up an area in Nagano at 3:03 p.m. on Oct. 16 that was hit by flooding near a destroyed embankment of the Chikumagawa river. (Hikaru Uchida)
The full extent of the devastation caused by Typhoon No. 19 remains unclear a week after the storm brought unprecedented downpours to eastern Japan. [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.