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U.S. pilot killed by A-bomb draws relative to Hiroshima | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (82+ words) August 22, 2026 at 07:00 JST Joseph Dubinsky (Provided by Robert Tatalovich) HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended…...
Chinese theater, promoter fined for altered patriotic song in comedy | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
6+ day, 7+ hour 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
6+ day, 12+ hour 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+ week, 5+ day 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
2+ week, 7+ hour 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…...
Ainu soldier lost in Okinawa war may finally be recognized | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
2+ week, 5+ day ago (108+ words) By TETSUAKI OTAKI/ Staff Writer August 19, 2026 at 17:47 JST Kazuyuki Yamamaru completes paperwork seeking an inscription for his uncle Takeharu at Okinawa’s Cornerstone of Peace memorial on Aug. 6 in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. (Tetsuaki Otaki) SHIRAOI, Hokkaido—The family of an Ainu soldier…...
Family of U.S. POW who died in A-bomb visits Hiroshima | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
2+ week, 5+ day ago (104+ words) By TAKAHIRO KINOMURA/ Staff Writer June 4, 2026 at 18:27 JST From right: Robert Tatalovich, Kayoko Mori and Haley Tatalovich at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on June 3 (Takahiro Kinomura) HIROSHIMA--Family members of a U.S. prisoner of war who died in the…...
Vietnam War photojournalist Bunyo Ishikawa dies at 88 | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (349+ words) August 24, 2026 at 16:28 JST Immediate family and close relatives will hold a private funeral. Born in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in 1938, Ishikawa worked for Mainichi Productions Inc. and other organizations before joining a film production company in Hong Kong where he was…...