THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 23, 2021 at 15:45 JST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks with reporters on Dec. 22 after the first community infection of the Omicron variant was confirmed in Osaka. (Koichi Ueda)
Central and local government officials were heightening their anti-infection efforts after Japan’s first community infection of the Omicron variant was confirmed in Osaka and other untraceable COVID-19 cases emerged. [Read More]
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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.
