THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 4, 2021 at 19:12 JST
Yoshinori Akimoto, director-general of the information and communications bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee session on Feb. 4. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is seated at front right. (The Asahi Shimbun)
High-ranking bureaucrats at the telecommunications ministry were secretly wined and dined by employees of a major visual media production company, including Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s son--a possible ethics code violation. [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
