Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search This link opens in a new windowDatabase searching the entire archive of The Asahi Shimbun (1879-present), Asahi Graph (1923-1956), other current Japanese language magazines, a who's who database, and a historical photo archive of 10,000 photographs taken by reporters dispatched throughout Asia from 1930-1945. Asahi Shimbun search formerly known as Kikuzo II Visual.