By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Princess Mako said the plan for her to marry Kei Komuro is still on, despite more than two years having passed since the postponement of the marriage was announce…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun With the government's long-standing aim to promote gender equality falling by the wayside, it appears that the goals will be kicked down the road again.
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NATORI, Miyagi Prefecture--Joe Biden is fondly remembered by residents from his brief visit to this coastal town when he was vice president and spent the day cons…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Normally at this time of year, wealthy foreigners descend on Niigata Prefecture to inspect and purchase brightly colored, prized specialty koi in transactions tha…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Following Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election, atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki expressed hopes the country will get back on trac…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga tweeted his congratulations to Democratic nominee Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. presidential election and hopes for bolsterin…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KANAZAWA--Japan could lose its only natural sandy beach where cars, motorcycles and even buses can run by the water's edge due to years of sea erosion.
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun BEIJING--China’s Coast Guard will be empowered to fire on foreign vessels that intrude into territorial waters under sweeping changes announced by the Standing Co…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Government officials provided another explanation for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s refusal to appoint six recommended scholars to the Science Council of Japan,…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--It was job training like no other for newly appointed school principals in this city devastated by the March 2011 Great East Japan …
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SASEBO, Nagasaki Prefecture--The whirlwind year of 2020 still has time to spin more havoc, but the sea of lights at a make-believe Dutch town here is a welcoming …
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun When troops were wounded in fighting in the country's remote southwestern islands, a Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) helicopter unit was assigned to transport th…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A formal court gown with a long trail thought to have been tailored overseas for Empress Shoken (1850-1914) is unraveling all sorts of secrets as it undergoes rep…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The government will ease entry restrictions from November on foreign arrivals, but at nowhere near the level envisaged by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to encoura…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The whistle-blower at Nissan Motor Co. who helped bring down former Chairman Carlos Ghosn over allegations of financial misconduct said in a choking voice in cour…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A brawl that erupted in Tokyo’s Kabukicho, Japan's largest red-light district, was apparently a flareup in a simmering turf war between a yakuza crime syndicate a…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japan's Alpha-X next-generation Shinkansen on Oct. 27 smashed all speed records to date by bullet trains running commercially, hitting a top speed of 382 kph in a…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NAHA--Much of Okinawa Prefecture's treasured Shuri-jo castle remains a desolate landscape a year after fire gutted the site that was a center of politics and cult…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KANAZAWA--With an assist from soccer great Hidetoshi Nakata, the National Crafts Museum settled into its new home and opened to the public here on Oct. 25, after …
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Mass rape on a scale that defies imagination and countless children born out of brutal sexual assault. A second book by Israeli photographer Jonathan Torgovnik th…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The government decided to delay authorizing a controversial plan to release treated radioactive water into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear pla…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Princess Mako, who turned 29 on Oct. 23, has managed to stay engaged with the public despite restrictions on her activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic by taking…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga refrained from mentioning China when he pushed for a free and open Indo-Pacific region, but Beijing still criticized the Japanese le…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KAZO, Saitama Prefecture--Two gigantic “koinobori” (carp streamers) were taken out of storage and given an airing outside on Oct. 21 to prepare for when the banne…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Environmental researchers have plugged into a simple solution for boosting the spread of renewable energy and it's hanging in the air overhead.
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Desperate to attract young people to join the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), recruiters have turned themselves into YouTubers to make its service seem cool.
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Eighty-nine-year-old Aiko Nakamoto has never returned to Japan after moving with her husband to Hamhung, his hometown in North Korea, in 1960.
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Despite limited resources and a dwindling number of witnesses, a citizens group has continued efforts to determine conditions in POW camps in Japan where 10 perce…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Company employee Akira Sakurai got up early for the opening 7 a.m. screening on Oct. 16 of “Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train,” which has been creating a huge b…
By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KASHGAR, China--At a domed building here in early October, the Islamic crescent symbol that indicated it had been a mosque had been removed. The interior of the b…
