By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
January 24, 2022 at 06:30 JST
Confidential records of the March 1990 talks held between U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu following the Tiananmen Square crackdown to discuss how to respond to China. The document was declassified in December 2021 by the Japanese Foreign Ministry. (Naotaka Fujita)
Talks between U.S. and Japanese leaders in 1990 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown show that even 30 years ago Western nations were concerned with China’s human rights problems, according to recently declassified documents. [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.