By AYA NAGATANI/ Staff Writer
January 26, 2021 at 08:00 JST
“Jiyu Zogan Karakusa Monko” (Glazed and inlaid arabesque pot) by Tatsuzo Shimaoka, a Mashiko potter who was designated as a living national treasure in 1996 (Provided by the Imperial Household Agency’s Museum of the Imperial Collections)
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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.