By SHUHEI NOMURA/ Staff Writer
August 29, 2020 at 17:20 JST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urges International Olympic Committee members to pick Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympics during a meeting held in September 2013. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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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.
