THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 12, 2020 at 16:20 JST
Tokyo metropolitan government employees use signs and a loudspeaker to call on people to go home in the Kabukicho entertainment district around 6 p.m. on April 11. (Chihiro Ara)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will issue another public appeal to halt novel coronavirus infections, asking for commuter numbers to fall by at least 70 percent in prefectures under a state of emergency. [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.
