By GO TAKAHASHI/ Staff Writer
April 23, 2023 at 07:00 JST
The main keep and a turret at Hikone Castle in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture (Jiro Tsutsui)
The Japan Tourism Agency will subsidize 139 travel packages that offer foreign tourists “special experiences,” including pulling floats in Kyoto’s Gion Festival and being the lord of an entire castle. [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.
