THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 8, 2024 at 15:43 JST
Employees at Marui Group Co. participate in a training session to review their awareness of gender roles. (Provided by Marui Group Co.)
Female full-time workers’ pay in Japan starts below those of men in their early 20s and continues to fall further behind until their 50s in almost every industry, an Asahi Shimbun study showed. [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.