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An anti-nuclear life, Part 3: Teruo Niinobe, Western painter (1922–2012)
Mar. 26, 2024 FeaturesHalftones reflect tranquility Artist expressed world that was the opposite of A-bombing by Masakazu Domen, Senior Staff Writer Teruo Niinobe, a Western-style painter from Hiroshima City...
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Mar. 22, 2024 News
Ukrainian students, translators for audio guides, make first visit to Peace Memorial Museum having evacuated amid Russian invasion
by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer On March 21, Ukrainian students visited t...
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Mar. 22, 2024
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Central Library relocation costs continue to climb, up 3.5 billion yen from Hiroshima’s initial plan, due to increased prices, unanticipated leasing fees
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer The estimated costs for relocation of the H...
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Mar. 22, 2024
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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shimbun and the press code — Surveillance of articles with A-bombing content, Part 5: Efforts made to conceal health effects
Determination to release information made at whim of U.S. When it came to it...
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Mar. 16, 2024
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Six organizations, including Hiroshima City government, to consider holding exhibit of A-bombing photos for registration with “Memory of the World”
by Yu Kawakami, Staff Writer On March 15, the Hiroshima City government rev...
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Mar. 15, 2024 Features
Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 3: Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Relief clauses might force nation to “clean up mess left by US” by Michio Shi...
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Mar. 14, 2024 Features
Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 2: “Hibakusha”
Decrease in number of people who can share experience, leading to sense of crisi...
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Ukrainian students, translators for audio guides, make first visit to Peace Memorial Museum having evacuated amid Russian invasion
Mar. 22, 2024 Newsby Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer On March 21, Ukrainian students visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, located in the city’s Naka Ward, for the first time. They were in charge of translat...
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Mar. 22, 2024
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Central Library relocation costs continue to climb, up 3.5 billion yen from Hiroshima’s initial plan, due to increased prices, unanticipated leasing fees
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer The estimated costs for relocation of the H...
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Mar. 16, 2024
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Six organizations, including Hiroshima City government, to consider holding exhibit of A-bombing photos for registration with “Memory of the World”
by Yu Kawakami, Staff Writer On March 15, the Hiroshima City government rev...
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Mar. 11, 2024 News
In Hiroshima, US Catholic pilgrimage group apologizes to six survivor organizations for A-bombing, asks for “dialogue toward reconciliation”
by Yu Yamada and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers On March 10, a group of Cath...
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Mar. 8, 2024 News
Takayuki Soeda selected to be creator of this year’s Hiroshima Appeals poster
by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer Takayuki Soeda, 74, an art director who l...
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Mar. 6, 2024 News
Interview with Ukraine Ambassador to Japan: Proclaims 100% support for nuclear-free world, potential for breakthrough in war contingent on provision of weapons
by Michiko Tanaka, Senior Staff Writer Sergiy Korsunsky, Ukraine Ambassador...
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Mar. 4, 2024 News
International Women’s Day 2024 — Young people from Kanto work on lectures, animated films for consideration of nuclear weapons from perspective of gender
Group hopes to challenge global male-dominated politics by Kana Kobayashi, ...
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An anti-nuclear life, Part 3: Teruo Niinobe, Western painter (1922–2012)
Mar. 26, 2024 FeaturesHalftones reflect tranquility Artist expressed world that was the opposite of A-bombing by Masakazu Domen, Senior Staff Writer Teruo Niinobe, a Western-style painter from Hiroshima City...
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Mar. 22, 2024
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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shimbun and the press code — Surveillance of articles with A-bombing content, Part 5: Efforts made to conceal health effects
Determination to release information made at whim of U.S. When it came to it...
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Mar. 15, 2024 Features
Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 3: Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Relief clauses might force nation to “clean up mess left by US” by Michio Shi...
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Mar. 14, 2024 Features
Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 2: “Hibakusha”
Decrease in number of people who can share experience, leading to sense of crisi...
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Mar. 13, 2024 Features
Questions from Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 1: Residents of test site
by Michio Shimotaka, Staff Writer The United States conducted repeated nucl...
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Feb. 24, 2024 Features
Evacuee families in Hiroshima two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Part 4 — Tenuous relationships with local people, feelings of isolation
Continued interest and support needed by Kyoko Niiyama, Staff Writer In ...
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Feb. 23, 2024 Features
Evacuee families in Hiroshima two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Part 3 — Decision to return to Ukraine even amid fears of war
Thoughts of children’s education and mother far away by Junichiro Hayashi and...
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The Way We Were-From Jewish school days in Tehran, to a wish and a prayer from Hiroshima
Feb. 3, 2024 Opinionby Nassrine Azimi HIROSHIMA —The elegant art deco building of Ettefagh, Iran's famous Jewish school, still stands on a leafy avenue adjacent to Tehran University. Originally established by prominen...
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Dec. 26, 2023 Opinion
Opinion: The Way We Were
From Jewish school days in Tehran, to a wish and a prayer from Hiroshima by N...
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Dec. 4, 2023
Opinion
Editorial: Second TPNW states parties’ meeting ends, but Japan also should join efforts to support nuclear victims
The second meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...
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Oct. 10, 2023 Opinion
Nobel Peace Prize: THINKING IRAN IN HIROSHIMA
by Nassrine Azimi HIROSHIMA— The Nobel Peace Prize this year was awarde...
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Aug. 7, 2023
Opinion
Editorial: Nuclear deterrence policy and August 6 — Hopes of Hiroshima’s people should be taken to heart
None of the previous commemorations of the August 6 atomic bombing likely focuse...
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Jun. 20, 2023 Opinion
The Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage — faith, peace and… trees
(Many) Pathways to Peace Series Nassrine Azimi Hiroshima — This year m...
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May 22, 2023
Opinion
Editorial: Upon conclusion of Hiroshima Summit, concrete actions called for
The themes tasked to this summit meeting of the G7 (Group of Seven industrialize...
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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Minoru Hataguchi, 77, Hatsukaichi City—Overcoming undying hatred, he shares his A-bomb account
- Survivors’ Stories: Yasuko Kondo, 83, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima City — Walked across ruins of Hiroshima at age four
- Survivors’ Stories: Bae Soja, 83, Minami Ward, Hiroshima City – Forever yearning for lost father
- Survivors’ Stories: Junko Yamase, 86, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City―Inspired by her friend, she began sharing her A-bomb account
- Survivors’ Stories: Haruko Nagai, 95, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City – Atomic bombing eats away at both her body and mind
The Chugoku Shimbun Junior Writers Reporting
Junior Writers Reporting: There are no nuclear weapons on a sustainable planet
January 22, 2024, marked the third anniversary of the effectuation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which bans the production, possession and use of nuclear weapons. In time
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Media exchange with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on March 26, 2022
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A set of golf clubs with only the metal remaining after a fire burned away the parts made of wood. Mr. Morihiro entrusted the set of clubs to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in 1962. (Photograph taken by Naohiro Yamada)
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