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The recent gaffe by farm minister Taku Eto has led me to ponder the delicate relationship between politics and humor, or more precisely, between...
Over the past half century, Japan has been hit by many volcanic eruptions, but scientifically those were only considered to be medium- or...
From the autumn of 1972, freelance journalist Satoshi Kamata worked undercover for six months as a seasonal laborer at a Toyota Motor Corp. plant...
One part of Hikaru Utada’s latest song created a buzz on social media over the Golden Week of national holidays in early May because of lyrics that...
A short walk from The Asahi Shimbun’s head office in Tokyo’s Tsukiji district brings you to the striking silhouette of Kachidokibashi bridge. I...
It saddens me to imagine a scene of black smoke billowing into the sky. Eighty years ago in this country, pages and pages of official documents...
What does it truly mean to be poor? Or perhaps the more pressing question is this: What does it mean to be rich? The recent passing of former...