Install
朝日新聞社のニュースサイトです。社会、経済、政治、国際、スポーツの速報ニュースやオピニオンに加え、IT・科学、文化・芸能、ライフ、教育・子育て、医療・健康、地域の話題や動画・写真も。
- 3,906articles · 365d
- 5+ hour agolatest article
- Oct 13, 2025earliest in window
- 98%with images
- 303avg words
- News 1,703
- Politics 1,266
- Politics2 824
- Economy, Business & Finance 790
- Finance & Business 564
- Sensitive Subjects 544
- Conflict, War & Peace 422
- Disaster, Accident & Emergency Incident 387
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Screening of Soviet-era film has alarmed Taiwan
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (109+ words) September 11, 2026 at 13:30 JST Posters displaying Russia's role in World War II in East Asia at an exhibition held by the Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation, in Taipei, Taiwan September 3. Picture taken with a mobile phone. (Reuters) TAIPEI…...
China grants a rare exemption over censorship after an unapproved song | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ week, 6+ day ago (360+ words) September 30, 2026 at 11:58 JST Authorities in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu granted a rare exemption to a singer on Tuesday after she added an unapproved song to her set list at a weekend concert, drawing renewed attention to China’s tightening…...
Rare Japanese WWII fighter raised from sea after 81 years | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
3+ week, 1+ day ago (100+ words) By FUJIO MIYATA/ Staff Writer April 9, 2026 at 17:41 JST The wreckage of the Shiden Kai aircraft is salvaged in Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, on April 9. (Provided by the association for preserving Hokusatsu’s war heritage for future generations) AKUNE, Kagoshima Prefecture--A former…...
U.S. pilot killed by A-bomb draws relative to Hiroshima | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
3+ week, 1+ day ago (104+ words) August 22, 2026 at 07:00 JST Robert Tatalovich, center, a nephew of U.S. pilot Joseph Dubinsky, hugs Kayoko Mori, the widow of historian Shigeaki Mori, in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward on June 3. (Takahiro Kinomura) HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing…...
SDF intelligence unit kept secret files on civilians’ private info | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
4+ week, 4+ hour ago (639+ words) September 15, 2026 at 18:27 JST A former member of the Ground Self-Defense Force’s field intelligence unit explains a manual on how to approach survey contacts. (Daisuke Yajima) A Ground Self-Defense Force intelligence unit systematically collected and stored information on civilians’ ideological beliefs…...
Shibuya’s Hachiko statue blocked off for third Halloween | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (235+ words) By SHO HATSUMI/ Staff Writer October 31, 2025 at 16:40 JST Shibuya Ward has fenced off the Hachiko statue in front of Shibuya Station for the third consecutive year to deter massive throngs of Halloween revelers. (Sho Hatsumi) It’s year three of no…...
Chinese theater, promoter fined for altered patriotic song in comedy | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (400+ words) September 8, 2026 at 11:30 JST BANGKOK—Authorities fined two companies and said that one of China’s best-known comedians had caused a “negative impact” on society, after an audience reported him for changing the lyrics of a patriotic song during a performance. The…...
Divers film what could be sunken WWII light cruiser Nagara | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (551+ words) By RYUTARO ITO/ Staff Writer September 8, 2026 at 07:00 JST The apparent hull of the former Imperial Japanese Navy’s light cruiser Nagara lies on the seafloor off the Ushibukamachi district of Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. (Provided by Yoshitaka Isaji) AMAKUSA, Kumamoto Prefecture--Divers…...
What the kamikaze still teach us in this age of drones | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (80+ words) By KOJI SONODA/ Senior National Security Correspondent August 26, 2026 at 07:00 JST The images leave a lasting impression on anyone watching the news: unmanned drones crashing into targeted facilities in the U.S.-Iran conflict or the war in Ukraine, followed by plumes of…...
Isle in Nagasaki offers marvelous landscape, rich religious history | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (104+ words) August 31, 2026 at 07:00 JST The Former Nokubi Church remains in existence on July 7 at a site in Ojika, Nagasaki Prefecture, that was once lined by stone-built terraced fields and residences during bygone days. (Masaru Komiyaji) OJIKA, Nagasaki Prefecture—Though getting there…...