THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 24, 2020 at 16:07 JST
A customer at a Chiba Prefecture convenience store places her purchases in her own shopping bag. (Mutsumi Mitobe)
Many retail companies plan to start charging customers for plastic bags on July 1, but other businesses have found ways to continue offering free bags without violating the government’s rules. [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.
