THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 31, 2021 at 18:22 JST
Young people gather to chat and drink after dark at Miyashita Park in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on July 30. (Tatsuya Shimada)
Millions of people in Tokyo are staying home glued to their TVs to watch the Olympics, but plenty of others are partying away in parks each night, swigging cans of booze as they cheer the latest medal tallies by Japanese athletes. [Read More]
Stories about memories of cherry blossoms solicited from readers
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 on the death of a Japanese woman that sparked a debate about criminal justice policy in the United States
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.
