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U.N. Secretary-General urges nuclear weapon states to commit to “no first use,” the first such reference, pledges solidarity with A-bombed cities, Hiroshima, August 6
Aug. 7, 2022 Newsby Michiko Tanaka, Harunobu Tsutsui and Rina Yuasa, Staff Writers U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the first time attended the Peace Memorial Ceremony held in Hiroshima on August 6. He...
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Aug. 9, 2022
News
Address by Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony
Seventy-seven years ago today, a single atomic bomb destroyed the city of Nagasa...
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Aug. 6, 2022 News
Lee Jong Geun’s daughters attend memorial ceremony for Korean A-bomb victims Shizuka, Chiyo determined to carry on father’s wish, see Korean victims’ register placed back in monument
by Yu Kawakami, Staff Writer On August 5, the memorial ceremony for Korean ...
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Aug. 6, 2022 News
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains—Seven photos of downtown devastation include shots taken around September 1945, shortly after atomic bombing
Valuable photos taken by member of public by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer ...
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Aug. 6, 2022
News
Address by Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony
Today, Hiroshima marks 77 years since the morning an atomic bomb was dropped. As...
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Aug. 6, 2022
News
Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2022 Who are the important people in your life? Family, friend...
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Aug. 6, 2022
News
The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
“I adored my mother; she raised me with such kindness and care.” The woman speak...
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U.N. Secretary-General urges nuclear weapon states to commit to “no first use,” the first such reference, pledges solidarity with A-bombed cities, Hiroshima, August 6
Aug. 7, 2022 Newsby Michiko Tanaka, Harunobu Tsutsui and Rina Yuasa, Staff Writers U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the first time attended the Peace Memorial Ceremony held in Hiroshima on August 6. He...
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Aug. 9, 2022
News
Address by Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony
Seventy-seven years ago today, a single atomic bomb destroyed the city of Nagasa...
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Aug. 6, 2022 News
Lee Jong Geun’s daughters attend memorial ceremony for Korean A-bomb victims Shizuka, Chiyo determined to carry on father’s wish, see Korean victims’ register placed back in monument
by Yu Kawakami, Staff Writer On August 5, the memorial ceremony for Korean ...
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Aug. 6, 2022 News
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains—Seven photos of downtown devastation include shots taken around September 1945, shortly after atomic bombing
Valuable photos taken by member of public by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer ...
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Aug. 6, 2022
News
Address by Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony
Today, Hiroshima marks 77 years since the morning an atomic bomb was dropped. As...
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Aug. 6, 2022
News
Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2022 Who are the important people in your life? Family, friend...
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Aug. 6, 2022
News
The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
“I adored my mother; she raised me with such kindness and care.” The woman speak...
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Directors and chairperson of WFC, base of international peace exchange, replaced and they pledge to send message of peace
Jun. 20, 2022 Featuresby Yumi Kanazaki, Staff Writer The American directors of the World Friendship Center (WFC), located in Hiroshima’s Nishi Ward, a hub of international peace exchange established by the late Bar...
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Aug. 3, 2022
Features
Discounted Casualties:The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium
Discounted Casualties:The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium, Part 1 Discounted C...
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Jun. 19, 2022 Features
Ahead of TPNW states parties meeting, Part 5: Matsui Kazumi, 69, Hiroshima City mayor, calls treaty ‘bible’ for realizing ideal situation
Job of politics is to strike balance between realism and idealism by Tsuyoshi...
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Jun. 18, 2022 Features
Ahead of TPNW states parties meeting, Part 4: Yuta Takahashi, 21, co-representative of KNOW NUKES TOKYO, resistant to absurd contradictions at outset
Actions that carry messages from A-bomb survivors by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Wr...
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Jun. 17, 2022 Features
Ahead of TPNW states parties meeting, Part 3: Masashi Ieshima, 80, representative director of Nihon Hidankyo
Frustration at national government’s turning away from TPNW Feelings of A-bom...
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Jun. 16, 2022 Features
Ahead of TPNW states parties meeting, Part 2: Akira Kawasaki, 53, member of ICAN international steering committee
Time to change concept “nuclear for nuclear” Contradiction in government’s de...
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Jun. 15, 2022 Features
Ahead of TPNW states parties meeting, Part1: Setsuko Thurlow, 90, A-bomb survivor who resides in Canada
by Hiromi Morita, Staff Writer The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Wea...
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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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Jun. 5, 2022
Opinion
Editorial: Although unlikely to attend TPNW states parties meeting, Japan must exhibit its determination to eliminate nuclear weapons
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced that Japan will send a governme...
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Mar. 5, 2022
Opinion
Inhumane behavior is entirely unacceptable
by Uzaemonnaotsuka Tokai, Senior Staff Writer The increasingly tense situat...
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Mar. 1, 2022
Opinion
Editorial: Former Prime Minister Abe’s remarks on “nuclear sharing” completely unacceptable
Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched an invasion of Ukraine in an attem...
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Jan. 22, 2022
Opinion
Editorial: One year after TPNW enters into force, why won’t the A-bombed nation of Japan participate in meeting as observer?
Nuclear weapons and human beings cannot coexist. The Treaty on the Prohibition o...
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Dec. 22, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: TPNW and Japan – Japan should not yield to interference from US
The United States reportedly interfered to prevent Japan from participating as a...
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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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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Hideko Nagai, 91, Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima City—Worried parents called out for their missing children
- Survivors’ Stories: Shigeko Sasamori, 89, U.S. state of California—Traveled to U.S. to receive treatment for burn scars on face
- Survivors’ Stories: Michiko Kodama, 84, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture — Cousin died in her arms
- Survivors’ Stories: Seiso Yamada, 96, Fuchu-cho, Hiroshima—Mushroom cloud was “blood red”
- Survivors’ Stories: Akira Takeuchi, 88, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima
The Chugoku Shimbun Junior Writers Reporting
Junior Writers Reporting: Picture book about Ms. Thurlow conveys her A-bombing experience to children
A picture book featuring Setsuko Thurlow, 90, an A-bomb survivor who lives in Canada, has been published by Chobunsha (Tokyo). The publication is based on a speech Ms. Thurlow delivered on behalf of t
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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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MoreSilent Witness
The human shadow etched in stone, on which the area where a person was sitting remained black. It conveys the sorrow of the victim, whose life was taken in an instant. The stone steps were donated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by the Hiroshima branch of Sumitomo Bank in 1971. (Photo taken by Hiroshi Takahashi)
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