THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 20, 2023 at 18:14 JST
Tourists stroll through a shopping arcade in front of Hakone-Yumoto Station in Kanagawa Prefecture. (Akifumi Nagahashi)
The return of crowds of foreign tourists to Japan coupled with a chronic personnel shortage in the hotel and transportation industries are creating various problems for an increasingly overwhelmed tourism sector. [Read More]
Stories about memories of cherry blossoms solicited from readers
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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.
