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Peace Park VR tour begins; participants learn what Hiroshima was like at time of atomic bombing
Aug. 2, 2021 Newsby Harunobu Tsutsui, Staff Writer The Peace Park Tour VR began on August 1. Participants tour Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and use virtual reality (VR) technology to experience what happened t...
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Aug. 6, 2021
News
Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2020 We have a mission. The tragedy that happened on that da...
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Aug. 6, 2021
News
The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
On this day 76 years ago, a single atomic bomb instantly reduced our hometown to...
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Jul. 26, 2021 News
Citizens’ group in Hiroshima sends A-bomb picture book to IOC President Bach
The citizens' group "Children's Library Linking Hiroshima and The World" in Hiro...
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Jul. 26, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains 76 years after atomic bombing—Records of First Girls’ School mobilized students, Part 4: Passing on materials to later generations
Young woman imagines sadness and pleasure, sees herself reflected in students ...
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Jul. 26, 2021
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Hiroshima Mayor requests IOC to observe moment of silence at Olympic venues on anniversary of atomic bombing on August 6
On July 29, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, by email and post, sent the Internat...
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Jul. 26, 2021
News
86 % of Hibakusha groups say “Government should take part in meeting of State Parties” of TPNW, realties of atomic bombings should be conveyed: Survey
A survey conducted by the Chugoku Shimbun found on July 28 that almost 90 percen...
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Peace Park VR tour begins; participants learn what Hiroshima was like at time of atomic bombing
Aug. 2, 2021 Newsby Harunobu Tsutsui, Staff Writer The Peace Park Tour VR began on August 1. Participants tour Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and use virtual reality (VR) technology to experience what happened t...
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Aug. 6, 2021
News
Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2020 We have a mission. The tragedy that happened on that da...
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Aug. 6, 2021
News
The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
On this day 76 years ago, a single atomic bomb instantly reduced our hometown to...
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Jul. 26, 2021 News
Citizens’ group in Hiroshima sends A-bomb picture book to IOC President Bach
The citizens' group "Children's Library Linking Hiroshima and The World" in Hiro...
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Jul. 26, 2021
News
Hiroshima Mayor requests IOC to observe moment of silence at Olympic venues on anniversary of atomic bombing on August 6
On July 29, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, by email and post, sent the Internat...
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Jul. 26, 2021
News
86 % of Hibakusha groups say “Government should take part in meeting of State Parties” of TPNW, realties of atomic bombings should be conveyed: Survey
A survey conducted by the Chugoku Shimbun found on July 28 that almost 90 percen...
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Jul. 23, 2021 News
Masamoto Nasu, writer of Zukkoke Trio, passes away at 79
Masamoto Nasu, a writer of children’s literature known for his popular series, “...
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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains 76 years after atomic bombing—Records of First Girls’ School mobilized students, Part 4: Passing on materials to later generations
Jul. 26, 2021 FeaturesYoung woman imagines sadness and pleasure, sees herself reflected in students System to prevent loss of materials essential There are few opportunities to access most of the World War II documen...
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Jul. 25, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima 76 years after the atomic bombing—Records of mobilized students at First Girls’ School, Part 5: Passing on survivors’ wishes
How can experiences and lessons be passed on to future generations? Exploring...
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Jul. 21, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima 76 years after the atomic bombing—Records of First Girls’ School mobilized students, Part 3: Life or death decisions
Father hurriedly evacuates daughter, saves her life Teachers disobey milita...
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Jul. 20, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima 76 years after the atomic bombing—Records of First Girls’ School mobilized students, Part 2: Daily records describe grueling work
Four shifts, making artillery shells — “Like a military organization” Some st...
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Jul. 19, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima 76 years after the atomic bombing—Records of mobilized students at First Girls’ School, Part 1: Survivors’ guilt
Woman who regretted taking that day off “meets” deceased friends listed in schoo...
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Jul. 19, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains 76 years after atomic bombing—Schools actively provided students as labor
Escalating demands from prefectural government and military observed in First Gi...
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Jul. 18, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids, evidence of victims remains 76 years after atomic bombing — “Shichotai” remnants, Part 5: Site of soccer stadium
Should be made into place where lives of victims are remembered Citizens be...
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75% of Japan’s public backs TPNW, in poll by U.S. researchers, revealing divide with resistant Japanese government
Mar. 22, 2021 OpinionStephen Herzog, 34, a research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University and other researchers have conducted a survey of public opinion in Japan regarding the Treaty on the P...
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Jul. 16, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: IOC President Bach to visit Hiroshima, but is he ready to commit to nuclear abolition?
Today, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, who is in Ja...
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Jul. 9, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: 25 years passes since ICJ’s advisory opinion about legality of nuclear weapons. It is now clear nuclear arms violate international law.
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (...
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Mar. 22, 2021
Opinion
Column: Matashichi Oishi passes from the scene
In a series of paintings titled “The Hiroshima Panels,” created by the couple Ir...
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Feb. 13, 2021
Opinion
Ruling and opposition Diet members debate Japan’s participation in meetings of States Parties to TPNW as observer, calling for proactive consideration
On February 12, in response to the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibi...
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Jan. 23, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: TPNW and Japan—Nation should play a leading role, not simply as mediator, to realize world free from nuclear weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force yesterda...
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Jan. 8, 2021
Opinion
Prime Minister Suga does not mention topic of TPNW when describing meeting with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden
At a news conference held on January 7, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga failed to ...
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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Yoshiko Niiyama, 86, Minami Ward, Hiroshima: Regretting not having been able to find her father
- Survivors’ Stories: Osata Sumida, 96, Minami Ward, Hiroshima
- Survivors’ Stories: Masaru Nanko, 90, Fuchu-cho, Hiroshima, incinerated brother’s corpse with empty mind
- Survivors’ Stories: Ruriko Yoshida, 94, California—Decided to share her Hiroshima A-bomb experience with people in the U.S.
- Survivors’ Stories: Hisae Okabe, 95, Naka Ward, Hiroshima— Exchanging night shifts was difference between life and death
The Chugoku Shimbun Junior Writers Reporting
Junior Writers Reporting: Depiction of work at facilities in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Connecting to memories of atomic bombing In the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, located in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward, there are two public facilities that convey information about the damage caused by t
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A cluster of what are believed to be ink bottles made of glass. Minoru Fujitsuka found them in front of his house where an ink factory had once stood. Donated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Mr. Fujitsuka in 1966. (Photo taken by Hiroshi Takahashi)
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Message Video “No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!”
This year marks 75 years since the atomic bombings. In order for many people to reflect on and share in the will of the hibakusha for nuclear weapons abolition, Mayors for Peace has created “No more H...
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