By SOICHI TSUCHIDATE/Staff Writer
September 16, 2023 at 19:01 JST
Elizabeth Brabec, who is president of ICOMOS’s International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, participates online in a news conference held Sept. 15 at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo. (Soichi Tsuchidate)
The UNESCO-affiliated International Council on Monuments and Sites said the planned redevelopment of Tokyo’s leafy Jingu Gaien park amounts to “irreversible destruction” of the nation’s cultural heritage and called for the project to be scrapped. [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.
