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]
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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.