Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.
April 19, 2021 at 14:00 JST
Chinese national flags fly at many of the shops in Urumchi in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in June 2019. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Numbers sometimes bring hidden facts to light. British writer Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) referred to the weekly “Bills of Mortality” in his “A Journal of the Plague Year,” which depicts how London was ravaged by the Great Plague in the 17th century. [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
