By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
January 9, 2023 at 06:30 JST
President Mikhail Gorbachev delivers a speech in Moscow in commemoration of victims after conservatives in the Soviet Communist Party failed in their coup in August 1991. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 before the country collapsed under the weight of his reform programs. [Read More]
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
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
