THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 7, 2020 at 18:30 JST
A woman operates an alter-ego robot via a tablet terminal at Niigata Prefectural Kashiwazaki special-needs school on Feb. 5. The robot is expected to take part in the summer’s Paralympic flame-lighting festival, assisting sick children. (Koji Atsumi)
A collection of more than 700 flames with symbolic meanings from across Japan will be brought together to light the torch that will burn brightly for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. [Read More]
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
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 about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
