THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 11, 2024 at 17:20 JST
Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, center, with Guido Crosetto, left, and Grant Shapps, his opposite numbers from Italy and Britain, after the signing of a treaty last December to set up a company for the joint development of the fighter jet (Nobuhiko Tajima)
The junior partner in the coalition government is point-blank refusing to be bulldozed into plans by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to supply allies of Japan with next-generation fighter jets.
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
