June 19, 2020 at 13:08 JST
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga calls for support for Anri Kawai during the Upper House election campaign in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, in July 2019. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
An unprecedented scandal has dealt a serious blow to people’s trust in the fairness of the election system, which is the foundation of democracy, and to the credibility of politics. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
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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.