THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 16, 2021 at 17:06 JST
Norihisa Tamura, health minister, center, and Yasutoshi Nishimura, minister in charge of COVID-19 measures, left, talk after a meeting at the prime minister’s office on Aug. 4. (Koichi Ueda)
The government plans to add Kyoto, Hyogo and Fukuoka prefectures to the six currently under a state of emergency to help curb the rapid spread of novel coronavirus infections, sources said. [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