THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 1, 2021 at 18:40 JST
A woman heads to a venue for volunteers for the Tokyo Olympics in an official outfit as well as a hat and mask bearing Olympic logos in Tokyo on July 30. (Keiko Sato)
Staging such a gigantic event as the Summer Games was always going to present a massive challenge, but add a surging pandemic and an expanded state of emergency and things start to look very grim, especially from the viewpoint of volunteers doing their level best to make things work smoothly. [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.
