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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shinbun and the press code – Diving into the materials, Part 1: Eliminating militaristic propaganda
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Jul. 18, 2024 News
Hiroshima Roundtable compiles draft of policy recommendations for no first use of nuclear weapons
by Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer On July 17, the Hiroshima Roundtable, a pa...
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Jul. 17, 2024
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Hiroshima City to review invitation criteria for Peace Memorial Ceremony in preparation for 80th anniversary of A-bombing
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer On July 16, the city of Hiroshima announced...
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Jul. 12, 2024
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Hiroshima invites Israel to Peace Memorial Ceremony; Palestine condemns city, saying victims, not perpetrators, should be invited
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer The Permanent General Mission of Palestine ...
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Jul. 9, 2024 News
Record 115 nations to attend Peace Memorial Ceremony, with Israel expected to participate, Hiroshima City government says
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer On July 8, the Hiroshima City government ...
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Jul. 8, 2024 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima — Recreating cityscapes: Bereaved family holds on to graduation album of Hiroshima High Institute of Technology, predecessor to Hiroshima University’s School of Engineering
Album with photographs showing students in wartime Photos of students in wh...
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Jul. 6, 2024 News
Determined to hand down on A-bomb experiences
Training begins in Hiroshima by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer A new tra...
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Hiroshima Roundtable compiles draft of policy recommendations for no first use of nuclear weapons
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Jul. 17, 2024
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Hiroshima City to review invitation criteria for Peace Memorial Ceremony in preparation for 80th anniversary of A-bombing
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer On July 16, the city of Hiroshima announced...
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Jul. 12, 2024
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Hiroshima invites Israel to Peace Memorial Ceremony; Palestine condemns city, saying victims, not perpetrators, should be invited
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer The Permanent General Mission of Palestine ...
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Jul. 9, 2024 News
Record 115 nations to attend Peace Memorial Ceremony, with Israel expected to participate, Hiroshima City government says
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer On July 8, the Hiroshima City government ...
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Jul. 6, 2024 News
Determined to hand down on A-bomb experiences
Training begins in Hiroshima by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer A new tra...
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Jul. 4, 2024 News
Sculpture based on A-bomb victim’s tricycle to go on display at museum in Geneva
by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer The International Campaign to Abolish N...
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Jul. 2, 2024
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Health Ministry’s report: Number of A-bomb survivors falls below 110,000 for the end of March, average age 85.58
by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer The number of A-bomb survivors holding an ...
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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shinbun and the press code – Diving into the materials, Part 1: Eliminating militaristic propaganda
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Jul. 8, 2024 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima — Recreating cityscapes: Bereaved family holds on to graduation album of Hiroshima High Institute of Technology, predecessor to Hiroshima University’s School of Engineering
Album with photographs showing students in wartime Photos of students in wh...
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Jul. 5, 2024 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shimbun and the press code — Diving into the materials, Part 3: Readers’ sentiments kept locked away
After the war ended, numerous challenges arose with Japan’s defeat in the war. O...
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Jul. 3, 2024 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shimbun and the press code ― Diving into the materials, Part 2: Taboo on reporting of “censorship”
On September 19, 1945, shortly after the occupation of Japan had begun, the Gene...
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Jun. 26, 2024 Features
An anti-nuclear life, Part 6: Kyoko Komori (poet, 1930–2023)
“Blue and Clear Sky,” connecting to future generations Transcending national ...
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Jun. 3, 2024 Features
Thoughts from Hiroshima: Views on U.S. subcritical nuclear test
On May 17, it was learned that the United States had conducted a subcritical nuc...
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May 23, 2024 Features
One year after G7 Hiroshima Summit, “achievements” in question, Part 5: Seeds of succession
Young people who experienced event take action toward peace English guide w...
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Tetsuji Kumada, 67, newly appointed to post of secretary-general of Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations
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Jun. 11, 2024 Opinion
Did you know? Basic information about A-bombed Hiroshima—Radioactive dust, soot
Q: Why was the rain that fell shortly after the atomic bombing black? by Hiro...
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Jun. 10, 2024 Opinion
Profits of Peace — Advice from Hiroshima’s A-bomb Mayor Shinso Hamai
By Nassrine Azimi Hiroshima — With the exception of select nuclear ne...
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May 14, 2024 Opinion
Did you know? Basic information about A-bombed Hiroshima… Survivor’s certificates also issued to those who entered city after bombing, engaged in relief work
by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer Q: I have met people who call themselve...
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Feb. 3, 2024 Opinion
The Way We Were-From Jewish school days in Tehran, to a wish and a prayer from Hiroshima
by Nassrine Azimi HIROSHIMA —The elegant art deco building of Ettefagh, Iran'...
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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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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Masaru Kurisu, 85, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City
- Survivors’ Stories: Yoshitsugu Tamaru, 85, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima City
- 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
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Junior Writers Reporting: There are no nuclear weapons on a sustainable planet
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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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Cosmetics discovered amid the debris after the fires caused by the atomic bombing. Sayoko Uchida’s compact is seen at right (donated by Mihoka Ishii in 2017). The beauty lotion bottle, donated by Shizuko Takeda in 1977, is at center. At left is the cosmetic cream bottle donated by Toshiyo Nakamura in 1979. (Photo taken by Naohiro Yamada)
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