THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 5, 2022 at 15:43 JST
Haruyuki Takahashi, center front, speaks with former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, center back, during a board meeting of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games on Sept. 28, 2015. Mori was president of the committee at the time, while Takahashi served as an executive board member. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The bribery scandal involving a former Tokyo Olympics executive widened further on Sept. 5 when the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office raided the headquarters of Daiko Advertising Inc. [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.