THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 21, 2021 at 17:35 JST
All games at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium during the Olympics will be played with no fans in the stands. (Taku Hosokawa)
FUKUSHIMA--When Yukiko Ueno, the ace of the Japanese women’s softball team, threw the first pitch in the game against Australia on July 21 to open the Tokyo Olympics, no cheers rose from the stands. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
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A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
