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Kinue Oshima to livestream bonfire-lit Noh requiem performance from hypocenter on YouTube on November 15
Sep. 30, 2021 Newsby Akemi Satoda, Staff Writer On September 29, the executive committee in charge of holding a bonfire-lit Noh performance at the A-bombing hypocenter to commemorate the victims on November 15 out...
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Oct. 5, 2021
News
Hiroshima’s Prime Minister Kishida will be watched carefully—ICAN anticipates his leadership; survivors want him to make his presence felt
by Miho Kuwajima, Kyosuke Mizukawa, and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers As so...
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Sep. 27, 2021 News
“Onomichi Red Brick Club” translates and publishes memoirs written by British man about harsh life in Innoshima Island POW camp
by Kenji Mochida, Staff Writer Memoirs written by a British man captured by...
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Sep. 20, 2021 News
Ripple patterns in sand—designed by A-bomb survivor Toshiko Tanaka as symbol of peace at 14 U.S. Japanese gardens—are captured in video scheduled for release September 21
by Rina Yuasa and Yumi Kanazaki, Staff Writers A video composed at 12 diffe...
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Sep. 7, 2021 News
Regis Savioz, ICRC Head of Delegation in Japan, visits Hiroshima and interacts with A-bomb survivor Chieko Kiriake
by Junji Akechi, Staff Writer On October 6, Regis Savioz, 54, Head of Del...
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Sep. 6, 2021 News
Three Hiroshima university students create documentary on “black rain” victims in Yuki-cho to prompt young people to consider war and A-bombings
by Luan Xiaoyu, Staff Writer Three students at the Hiroshima University o...
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Sep. 3, 2021 News
Toward opening of doors in spring next year, Hiroshima City begins construction on facilities in Peace Memorial Park for exhibit of A-bombed structural remains
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer On September 2, the Hiroshima City govern...
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Kinue Oshima to livestream bonfire-lit Noh requiem performance from hypocenter on YouTube on November 15
Sep. 30, 2021 Newsby Akemi Satoda, Staff Writer On September 29, the executive committee in charge of holding a bonfire-lit Noh performance at the A-bombing hypocenter to commemorate the victims on November 15 out...
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Oct. 5, 2021
News
Hiroshima’s Prime Minister Kishida will be watched carefully—ICAN anticipates his leadership; survivors want him to make his presence felt
by Miho Kuwajima, Kyosuke Mizukawa, and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers As so...
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Sep. 27, 2021 News
“Onomichi Red Brick Club” translates and publishes memoirs written by British man about harsh life in Innoshima Island POW camp
by Kenji Mochida, Staff Writer Memoirs written by a British man captured by...
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Sep. 20, 2021 News
Ripple patterns in sand—designed by A-bomb survivor Toshiko Tanaka as symbol of peace at 14 U.S. Japanese gardens—are captured in video scheduled for release September 21
by Rina Yuasa and Yumi Kanazaki, Staff Writers A video composed at 12 diffe...
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Sep. 7, 2021 News
Regis Savioz, ICRC Head of Delegation in Japan, visits Hiroshima and interacts with A-bomb survivor Chieko Kiriake
by Junji Akechi, Staff Writer On October 6, Regis Savioz, 54, Head of Del...
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Sep. 6, 2021 News
Three Hiroshima university students create documentary on “black rain” victims in Yuki-cho to prompt young people to consider war and A-bombings
by Luan Xiaoyu, Staff Writer Three students at the Hiroshima University o...
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Sep. 3, 2021 News
Toward opening of doors in spring next year, Hiroshima City begins construction on facilities in Peace Memorial Park for exhibit of A-bombed structural remains
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer On September 2, the Hiroshima City govern...
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Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 1
Aug. 14, 2021 Featuresby Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City The history museum at Hiroshima Jogakuin University, located in the city’s Higashi Ward, has in its archives a violin that survi...
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Aug. 25, 2021
Features
Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 8
by Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City The vi...
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Aug. 24, 2021
Features
Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 7
by Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City Sergei P...
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Aug. 21, 2021
Features
Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 6
by Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City About ...
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Aug. 20, 2021
Features
Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 5
by Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City Immedi...
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Aug. 19, 2021
Features
Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 4
by Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City Before...
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Aug. 18, 2021
Features
Chronicle: Akito Hirotani—Miracle violin that survived the A-bombing, Part 3
by Akito Hirotani, former English teacher living in Hiroshima City As Ser...
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75% of Japan’s public backs TPNW, in poll by U.S. researchers, revealing divide with resistant Japanese government
Mar. 22, 2021 OpinionStephen Herzog, 34, a research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University and other researchers have conducted a survey of public opinion in Japan regarding the Treaty on the P...
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Aug. 31, 2021
Opinion
An appeal for the Afghans we know and love
Amid continuing turmoil, a new generation was being nurtured that given peace, e...
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Jul. 16, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: IOC President Bach to visit Hiroshima, but is he ready to commit to nuclear abolition?
Today, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, who is in Ja...
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Jul. 9, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: 25 years passes since ICJ’s advisory opinion about legality of nuclear weapons. It is now clear nuclear arms violate international law.
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (...
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Mar. 22, 2021
Opinion
Column: Matashichi Oishi passes from the scene
In a series of paintings titled “The Hiroshima Panels,” created by the couple Ir...
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Feb. 13, 2021
Opinion
Ruling and opposition Diet members debate Japan’s participation in meetings of States Parties to TPNW as observer, calling for proactive consideration
On February 12, in response to the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibi...
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Jan. 23, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: TPNW and Japan—Nation should play a leading role, not simply as mediator, to realize world free from nuclear weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force yesterda...
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- Survivors’ Stories: Yoshiko Niiyama, 86, Minami Ward, Hiroshima: Regretting not having been able to find her father
- Survivors’ Stories: Osata Sumida, 96, Minami Ward, Hiroshima
- Survivors’ Stories: Masaru Nanko, 90, Fuchu-cho, Hiroshima, incinerated brother’s corpse with empty mind
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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
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A cluster of what are believed to be ink bottles made of glass. Minoru Fujitsuka found them in front of his house where an ink factory had once stood. Donated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Mr. Fujitsuka in 1966. (Photo taken by Hiroshi Takahashi)
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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 H...
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