By YASUJI NAGAI/ Senior Staff Writer
December 25, 2021 at 07:00 JST
The top page of the Dec. 9, 1941, morning edition of The Asahi Shimbun reports on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and elsewhere to open a war with the United States and Britain. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Recollections of former Imperial Japanese military personnel paint a picture of peer pressure and optimism fueled by Germany's victories across Europe as putting Japan on an unstoppable path toward 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.