- Aug. 7, 1999
- 54th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing: Man originally from “Nakajima-honmachi,” town at rest now, prays for peace and plangently conveys summer of his origin point, his cruel experience of “losing parents due to atomic bombing,” to children at his old school
- Aug. 3, 1999
- 436 die in Nakajima Honmachi due to atomic bombing, 180 deaths confirmed on south side of street: Survey by Chugoku Shimbun
