THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 22, 2021 at 15:33 JST
Japan's Self-Defense Force aerobatics team Blue Impulse flies over the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo Olympics in the capital, on July 21, skywriting Olympic rings. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
Comedian Kentaro Kobayashi was dismissed as director of the Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies over a past skit that made jokes about Holocaust victims, the problem-plagued Tokyo organizing committee said July 22. [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
