THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 14, 2020 at 16:51 JST
Anri Kawai, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, is surrounded by reporters as she leaves the venue for the Upper House plenary session on June 12. (Takeshi Iwashita)
A former justice minister and his wife offered nearly 26 million yen ($242,000) in cash to about 100 people in Hiroshima Prefecture prior to the Upper House election last year in a suspected vote-buying scandal, investigative sources said. [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.
