|
The Asahi ShimbunThe Asahi Shimbun |
When you are in deep trouble, are you able to turn to someone for help? When you realize you just can’t cope on your own, can you ask someone,...
A full picture has emerged of a systemic scam that was perpetrated by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. to maintain “mutually beneficial” relations...
Science fiction writer Shinichi Hoshi (1926-1997) used to write on his “nengajo” (New Year’s greeting card) to his friends, “This year, too,...
It is difficult to accept the U.S. government's intervention, without a rational explanation, in a corporate acquisition deal already agreed upon by...
A growing chorus within the political sphere is calling for a reduction in the income tax and in social insurance contribution burdens. The...
Donald Trump, who is about to become the president of the United States for a second time, said the following a couple of months ago: “To me, the...
The grinding gears of politics seem to be slowly meshing once more. In the two months since the formation of a minority government, the Diet is...
There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and Altair as her favorites...
Even wars have rules. Are we on the cusp of an era when we speak of this basic principle in the past tense? Eighty years have passed since the last...
Aioi-no-yashiro, a small shrine on the grounds of Shimogamo Jinja Shrine in Kyoto, is known to have a “god of matchmaking” as its guardian deity....
We feel uneasy. We have a premonition of turbulence, but we can’t quite put our finger on it. An unusually unpredictable new year has dawned. The...
What makes people miss their hometown? Is it because that’s where their cherished family memories belong? Or do they long to see the warm smiles...
The Cabinet has approved a draft initial budget for fiscal 2025, the third year of the government’s five-year plan to spend a total of 43 trillion...
I recently visited Okunoto, the northernmost area on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. The Sea of Japan, whipped by chilly winter winds,...
The forced relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa Prefecture serves as a stark example of how the pursuit of “...
Chiba, Ueno, Hamamatsu, Inuyama, Higashiyama and Kyoto. If your reaction to this list of place names is “Aha,” you must be a bona fide gorilla...
Thanks to several strokes of luck, no one aboard the Japan Airlines passenger jet died in the collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda...
In her opening remarks at the 23rd Session of the Assembly of States Parties on Dec. 2 in The Hague, Judge Tomoko Akane, the president of the...
Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in...
We welcome the emerging willingness among policymakers in both Japan and China to expand bilateral dialogue as a first step toward improving...