THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 17, 2020 at 18:14 JST
Few people are seen on the beach of Oarai, a town known for surfing, in Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 16. A sign calls on visitors not to enter the beach. (Yosuke Fukudome)
Sayaka Murashima was among the 20 or so shoppers lined up in the drizzle to wait for the reopening of Iwataya Department Store in central Fukuoka on May 16. [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
