Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Angels’ two-way superstar, appears in a new math textbook that elementary school fifth-graders in Japan will use in the school year that starts in April 2024.
Some academics and members of LGBT advocacy groups are voicing concerns that the public broadcaster’s year-end variety show is divisive and makes sexual minorities feel excluded.
A candlelight message in front of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Jan. 22 when the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took effect (Jun Ueda)
Japanese college students are answering the call from atomic bomb survivors to carry on their fight to get Japan and other nations to sign the U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took effect on Jan. 22, but Japan, the only nation to have atomic bombs dropped on it during war, has not signed it.
Hibakusha have long called for the elimination of nuclear weapons, but as the victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now in their twilight years, they have often voiced fear that no one will carry on their cause after they re gone.