By SHINJI HAKOTANI/ Staff Writer
February 3, 2021 at 17:59 JST
Few pedestrians are seen in a business district in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward in April 2020 during Japan's first state of emergency. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A total of 1,000 companies have now gone bankrupt in Japan due to causes related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest count by a credit reporting agency showed. [Read More]
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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.
