THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 27, 2021 at 17:40 JST
A quarantine officer receives saliva samples from an entrant to Japan to conduct an antigen test for the novel coronavirus at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture on May 23. (Yasuhiro Sugimoto)
Some health experts fear that a coronavirus variant first detected in India and potentially more contagious than one that devastated Britain is slowly gaining a foothold in Japan. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
