By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
December 22, 2021 at 16:00 JST
When then Polish President Lech Walesa visited Japan in 1994, he held talks with Takako Doi, the Lower House speaker at the time, in Tokyo. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
In newly declassified diplomatic documents, Polish labor union leader Lech Walesa expressed the hope that his country could become “another Japan” in talks with then Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu in January 1990. [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.