By TABITO FUKUTOMI/ Staff Writer
August 11, 2021 at 10:00 JST
For his representative work titled "Heiwa he no Michi" (Road to peace), Shizuo Takata asked a U.S. couple visiting the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima in 1958 if he could snap their photo. (Provided by Toshiaki Takata)
HIROSHIMA--Hailed as the “Shot-put King,” Shizuo Takata became a six-time Japan National Championships winner after he turned 18 and went on to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. [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
