By SHINICHI FUJIWARA/ Staff Writer
May 15, 2020 at 17:27 JST
Then Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, right, and then U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy sign a supplementary agreement to the Status of Forces Agreement in Tokyo in January 2017. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
At least 160 written statements have been submitted by municipal and prefectural assemblies asking for a revision of the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which grants broad privileges to the U.S. armed forces in Japan. [Read More]
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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
