THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 8, 2021 at 17:55 JST
Wearing a face covering to avoid being identified, a woman from Hong Kong who lives in Japan asks for legislation that will punish human rights violators at a meeting in the Diet in November. (Tatsuya Sato)
Lawmakers are forming a nonpartisan group to enact a Japanese version of the U.S. Magnitsky Act, which would allow Japan to slap sanctions on parties it deems guilty of human rights abuses overseas. [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
