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]
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
