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High school students create paintings of A-bomb horror based on survivors’ experiences
Apr. 15, 2024 Newsby Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer Five students in a course on Creative Expression at Motomachi High School, located in downtown Hiroshima, have completed paintings based on the experiences of two A...
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Apr. 12, 2024 News
Former Akatsuki Corps child soldiers, who trained for suicide attacks and engaged in rescue work after A-bombing, call for end to war in special exhibit at Hiroshima National Memorial Hall
Through video testimonies and ‘death poem,’ former soldiers ask for people to “c...
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Apr. 12, 2024
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Prime Minister Kishida speaks to U.S. Congress Joint Meeting, emphasizes importance of U.S.-Japan partnership but does not request cooperation for “world without nuclear weapons”
by Masaya Akiyoshi, Staff Writer WASHINGTON D.C. — On the morning of Apri...
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Apr. 9, 2024 News
Hiroshima mayor quotes prewar Imperial Rescript on Education in lecture at training for newly hired city employees, employs constitution preamble
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer On April 8, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui g...
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Apr. 9, 2024 News
95-year-old Ehime man continues to memorialize deceased Kaiten crews on Ozushima Island, even after death of fellow soldier 4 years ago
by Ryutaro Inoue, Staff Writer When cherry blossom season arrives, a 95-y...
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Apr. 8, 2024 News
Commemorating 60 years since World Peace Pilgrimage, panel exhibit in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward remembers A-bomb survivors and the others
by Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer On April 7, a panel exhibit titled “Hirosh...
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Apr. 8, 2024 News
In role as Family A-bomb Legacy Successor, Kyoto’s Toshifumi Taniguchi hopes to pass on experience of A-bomb survivor mother, who was orphaned after losing 6 family members
Official appointment ceremony to be held April 23 by Kyoko Niiyama, Staff Wri...
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High school students create paintings of A-bomb horror based on survivors’ experiences
Apr. 15, 2024 Newsby Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer Five students in a course on Creative Expression at Motomachi High School, located in downtown Hiroshima, have completed paintings based on the experiences of two A...
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Apr. 12, 2024 News
Former Akatsuki Corps child soldiers, who trained for suicide attacks and engaged in rescue work after A-bombing, call for end to war in special exhibit at Hiroshima National Memorial Hall
Through video testimonies and ‘death poem,’ former soldiers ask for people to “c...
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Apr. 12, 2024
News
Prime Minister Kishida speaks to U.S. Congress Joint Meeting, emphasizes importance of U.S.-Japan partnership but does not request cooperation for “world without nuclear weapons”
by Masaya Akiyoshi, Staff Writer WASHINGTON D.C. — On the morning of Apri...
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Apr. 9, 2024 News
Hiroshima mayor quotes prewar Imperial Rescript on Education in lecture at training for newly hired city employees, employs constitution preamble
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer On April 8, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui g...
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Apr. 9, 2024 News
95-year-old Ehime man continues to memorialize deceased Kaiten crews on Ozushima Island, even after death of fellow soldier 4 years ago
by Ryutaro Inoue, Staff Writer When cherry blossom season arrives, a 95-y...
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Apr. 8, 2024 News
Commemorating 60 years since World Peace Pilgrimage, panel exhibit in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward remembers A-bomb survivors and the others
by Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer On April 7, a panel exhibit titled “Hirosh...
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Apr. 8, 2024 News
In role as Family A-bomb Legacy Successor, Kyoto’s Toshifumi Taniguchi hopes to pass on experience of A-bomb survivor mother, who was orphaned after losing 6 family members
Official appointment ceremony to be held April 23 by Kyoko Niiyama, Staff Wri...
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My guidepost, Hiroshima pioneers: Hiromu Morishita, 93, A-bomb survivor and teacher, speaks about Barbara Reynolds
Apr. 1, 2024 FeaturesTook on suffering of A-bomb survivors as if her own by Hiromi Morita, Staff Writer Hiromu Morishita has devoted his life to peace education. Mr. Morishita said what paved the way for him w...
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Mar. 26, 2024 Features
An anti-nuclear life, Part 3: Teruo Niinobe (Western painter, 1922–2012)
Halftones reflect tranquility Artist expressed world that was the opposit...
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Mar. 22, 2024
Features
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. 17, 2024 Features
Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 5: Interview with Seiichiro Takemine, professor, Meisei University
How to leave record of experience is important issue by Michio Shimotaka, Sta...
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Mar. 16, 2024 Features
Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 4: Double hardship
Rising sea levels lend reality to idea of migration by Michio Shimotaka, Staf...
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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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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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