Hannah Beech

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Hannah Beech

Incluso entre antiguos enemigos, la nueva retirada de la ayuda y los ideales democráticos de Estados Unidos está despertando profundos sentimientos y confusión. Hace 50 años, mi padre, un reportero de guerra estadounidense, escaló por el muro de la embajada de Estados Unidos en la entonces Saigón y se subió a un helicóptero que despegó desde un techo. "Mi última vista de Saigón fue a través de la puerta trasera del helicóptero", escribió en el Chicago Daily News. "Luego la puerta se cerró.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Hannah Beech

Even among former enemies, the new American withdrawal from aid and democratic ideals is stirring deep feelings and confusion. Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a chopper that took off from a roof in the mission. "My last view of Saigon was through the tail door of the helicopter," he wrote in the Chicago Daily News.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Hannah Beech |Kenji Hall |Melinda Joe |Joanna Kawecki |Vivian Morelli |Hiroko Yoda

T 25Six Japanese food professionals - including four acclaimed chefs - took on what seemed to all of them like a near-impossible task. Credit... Yoshinori Mizutani More than 200 types of fish and other edible seafood species inhabit Tokyo Bay, and many more live in the waters off Japan. There are delicate, darting fish like isaki and sea squirts like hoya (also known as sea pineapples): things rarely seen on American menus.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Hannah Beech

The artists, musicians and writers pushing past decades of historical erasure. THE STORY GOES that the Japanese imperial family, which claims the world's longest unbroken royal lineage, is descended from a sun goddess, Amaterasu. That's common lore. But what's less discussed is that another famous ancestor, Emperor Kammu, who ruled from 781-806, was a descendant of a Korean king.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Hannah Beech |Sun Narin

China is the biggest foreign patron of Cambodia, where Mr. Xi concluded a tour of Southeast Asia. But the region also needs to curry favor with President Trump. Xi Jinping Boulevard runs a loop around Cambodia's fast-growing capital, where signs in Chinese are rapidly overtaking those in English. The ring road around Phnom Penh, which was officially named after the Chinese leader last year, will soon connect to a Chinese-built airport that is being touted as one of the world's 10 largest.