THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 24, 2020 at 13:40 JST
Toshio Akagi, an official at the Kinki Local Finance Bureau, stands in front of the Tokyo National Museum in 2016. (Provided by Akagi's widow)
The widow of a Finance Ministry official lashed out at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso for refusing to reinvestigate a document falsification scandal that led to her husband’s suicide. [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.
