THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 28, 2021 at 07:30 JST
Noboru Hosokawa, an employee at Sekisui House Ltd., took one month of paternity leave from his work at a model house park in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward. (Suguru Takizawa)
Japan operates one of the most generous paternity leave systems in the world, yet few men take advantage of it due to longstanding gender-role stereotypes. Some local governments and companies are trying to turn the tide. [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
