THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 15, 2021 at 18:40 JST
Tetsuo Saito, the infrastructure minister, apologizes at the Dec. 15 Lower House Budget Committee session for the falsification by his subordinates of construction contract reports. (Koichi Ueda)
Both Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and infrastructure minister Tetsuo Saito apologized on Dec. 15 for the eight years of construction contract figures that were falsified under the instructions of ministry bureaucrats. [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.
