Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.
November 20, 2020 at 14:15 JST
Sakata Tojuro IV addresses the audience after finishing his 1,400th performance of "Sonezaki Shinju" (The Love Suicides of Sonezaki) in Fukuoka in June 2015. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
It was in Kyoto in 1953 that Donald Keene (1922-2019), an American-born scholar of Japanese literature, first saw a Kabuki performance by Nakamura Senjaku II, who would later take the name of Sakata Tojuro IV. [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.
