By YOSHIHIRO MAKINO/ Senior Staff Writer
May 6, 2022 at 07:00 JST
Couples to marry in North Korea are supposed to make visits to the bronze statues of its ex-leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, on the Mansudae hill in Pyongyang such as in this image taken in October 2014. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
North Korea, a nation long on the outs with most of the international community, has found in the Ukraine conflict a chance to breathe new life into its old, somewhat soured relationship with Russia. [Read More]
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A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
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 about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
