THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 6, 2022 at 15:14 JST
Chizuko Ueno, professor emerita at the University of Tokyo, speaks about the petition calling on the cancellation of Abe’s state funeral at the news conference on Sept. 5. (Takayuki Kakuno)
Petitions signed by 404,258 people demanding the cancellation of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were submitted to the Cabinet Office on Sept. 5. [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.
