THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 10, 2023 at 18:25 JST
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications promotes the hometown tax program on its website. (The Asahi Shimbun)
The hometown tax program, designed to help struggling rural communities, left 27 percent of all local governments in the red in fiscal 2021, a study by The Asahi Shimbun showed. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
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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.
