By CHIHIRO KOTAKI/ Senior Staff Writer
March 6, 2020 at 18:07 JST
A partial enlargement of a picture of the mural of a Buddhist saint taken by Matsutaro Tanaka during the Taisho Era. There are no scratches on the left eye. (Captured from an academic book about Horyuji temple)
Some 150 glass photographic plates were discovered that show treasured seventh-century murals from World Heritage site Horyuji temple before they were scorched in a 1949 fire. [Read More]
Stories about memories of cherry blossoms solicited from readers
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.