THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 24, 2021 at 15:50 JST
The illumination of five Olympic rings in Tokyo Bay is turned off at 8 p.m. each evening in accordance with a request from the metropolitan government for businesses to close at that hour due to the month-long state of emergency in the capital over the coronavirus pandemic that was declared from Jan. 7. (Hikaru Uchida)
Japanese athletes expecting to participate in the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games fear the sports extravaganza could end up exacerbating the novel coronavirus pandemic, posing an added risk to themselves as well as fans, an Asahi Shimbun poll shows. [Read More]
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
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 about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
