By ROPPEI TSUDA/ Staff Writer
August 24, 2021 at 07:10 JST
The receipt of a call-up order, or “akagami” (red paper), formerly kept at Joetsu City's temporary archives in Niigata Prefecture, now the Archives Center of Joetsu City (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
KAI, Yamanashi Prefecture--The term conscientious objector hadn't been coined when Takaichi Yamada decided to fake his own death to avoid military conscription in the Pacific War. [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.
