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The Asahi Shimbun![]() |
Four years ago, the Abe administration launched amid fanfare a program to fund research and development projects which, according to its slogan,...
In the late Edo Period (1603-1867), Japan did not possess technology for the mass production of soap. The first man to attempt soap-making by a...
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on April 24 formally approved the resignation of Junichi Fukuda as administrative vice finance minister....
When a cleanup batter strikes out in the clutch, baseball fans naturally get angry. They also sigh and groan. But that was not the case when Sachio...
The Diet remained stalled through April 23, with the opposition parties refusing to attend any session after the ruling camp rejected their...
Author Hiroshi Kato, who died on April 7 at age 87, was once a frustrated law student at the University of Tokyo. Unable to focus on his law...
I recently visited Tonami, a city in Toyama Prefecture where 3 million tulips are splendidly decorating the celebration of the arrival of spring in...
North Korea has declared a radical policy shift by announcing it will immediately suspend tests of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic...