News
- Jun. 2, 2021
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Children’s resolve recorded in writings two years before A-bombing: Unite with 100 million others to protect homeland
- May 31, 2021
- Hiroshima Peace Volunteers introduce Peace Park memorial monuments online to U.S. elementary school students in new initiative amid coronavirus pandemic
- May 28, 2021
- Handing down A-bomb experience Observing Obama’s visit to Hiroshima sustains motivation of Akahata, Sakuhara for continuing their activities
- May 27, 2021
- Yuki Tominaga, granddaughter of deceased A-bomb survivor, to convey grandmother’s message online to US university students
- May 24, 2021
- Video featuring A-bomb testimonies posted online with subtitles in Pakistan’s official language to send message of peace
Silent Witness
Features
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Recreating cityscapes: Three photos taken one year before A-bombing show daily life at Army clothing depot
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Kudentai’s work in August 1945, Part 3: A-bomb journalist
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Kudentai in August 1945, Part 2: Media soldiers
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Kudentai’s work in August 1945, Part 1: Female reporter in wartime
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 3: Living materials
Survivors' Stories
- 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
- Survivors’ Stories: Nobuyasu Nuibe, 91, Aki Ward, Hiroshima
- Survivors’ Stories: Takae Bungo, 86, Minami Ward, Hiroshima―Could never speak of experiences related to deaths of father and brothers
Opinion
- 75% of Japan’s public backs TPNW, in poll by U.S. researchers, revealing divide with resistant Japanese government
- Column: Matashichi Oishi passes from the scene
- Ruling and opposition Diet members debate Japan’s participation in meetings of States Parties to TPNW as observer, calling for proactive consideration
- Editorial: TPNW and Japan—Nation should play a leading role, not simply as mediator, to realize world free from nuclear weapons
- Prime Minister Suga does not mention topic of TPNW when describing meeting with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden
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
Peace Movies
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 Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!”, a compilation of video messages.
http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=99474
Speakers (23 people)
⑴Ms. Yoshiko Kajimoto, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ⑵Mr. Yoshiro Yamawaki, survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ⑶Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan ⑷Mr. Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan ⑸Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs ⑹His Excellency Mr. Gustavo Zlauvinen, President-Designate of the NPT Review Conference ⑺His Excellency Mr. Syed Mohamad Hasrin Aidid, Chair of the Third Preparatory Committee for the NPT Review Conference ⑻Mr. Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ⑼Ms. Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) ⑽14 representatives from Executive Cities of Mayors for Peace: Biograd na Moru (Croatia), Des Moines (U.S.A.), Granollers (Spain), Hannover (Germany), Malakoff (France), Manchester (U.K.), Muntinlupa (Philippines), Volgograd (Russia), Ypres (Belgium), Bangkok (Thailand), Fremantle (Australia), Santos (Brazil), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Geneva (Switzerland, a Member City in which the UNOG is located)
A-bomb Images
- Special exhibition of Wakaji Matsumoto’s photos to be held at The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 2021
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Monument of the A-bombed Teachers and Students of National Elementary Schools
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: A-bomb Monument of Hiroshima Municipal Girls’ High School
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: The Statue of Mother and Child in the Storm
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Rest House
