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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains in records of A-bombing disaster—Many photos taken after A-bombing added as new content to redesigned website
Jan. 3, 2022 NewsOn January 3, the Chugoku Shimbun redesigned its website “Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima,” the newspaper’s major undertaking designed to capture the reality of devastation from the atomic bombing...
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Dec. 24, 2021
News
Hiroshima Mayor requests Japan’s national government to reconsider participation in Meeting of States Parties to TPNW
by Junji Akechi and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers On December 23, Hiroshima...
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Dec. 23, 2021 News
Former students and younger generations attend Sunao Tsuboi’s memorial service, take on his wishes for nuclear weapons abolition
by Taiki Yomura and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers On December 22, a memoria...
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Dec. 22, 2021 News
Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education creates calendar conveying horrors of war
by Taiki Yomura, Staff Writer The Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education...
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Dec. 22, 2021 News
Hidankyo submits 650,000 signatures calling for TPNW ratification to Japan’s national government
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer On December 21, the Japan Confederation of A-...
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Dec. 21, 2021 News
Hiroshima prefectural, city governments submit plan in a bid to host G7—Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima would be main venue
by Taiki Yomura, Staff Writer In a bid to host the 2023 summit meeting of t...
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Dec. 21, 2021 News
Prior to NPT review conference, Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition requests government to make progress on nuclear disarmament
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer On December 20, prior to the Nuclear Non-Prol...
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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains in records of A-bombing disaster—Many photos taken after A-bombing added as new content to redesigned website
Jan. 3, 2022 NewsOn January 3, the Chugoku Shimbun redesigned its website “Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima,” the newspaper’s major undertaking designed to capture the reality of devastation from the atomic bombing...
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Dec. 24, 2021
News
Hiroshima Mayor requests Japan’s national government to reconsider participation in Meeting of States Parties to TPNW
by Junji Akechi and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers On December 23, Hiroshima...
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Dec. 23, 2021 News
Former students and younger generations attend Sunao Tsuboi’s memorial service, take on his wishes for nuclear weapons abolition
by Taiki Yomura and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers On December 22, a memoria...
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Dec. 22, 2021 News
Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education creates calendar conveying horrors of war
by Taiki Yomura, Staff Writer The Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education...
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Dec. 22, 2021 News
Hidankyo submits 650,000 signatures calling for TPNW ratification to Japan’s national government
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer On December 21, the Japan Confederation of A-...
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Dec. 21, 2021 News
Hiroshima prefectural, city governments submit plan in a bid to host G7—Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima would be main venue
by Taiki Yomura, Staff Writer In a bid to host the 2023 summit meeting of t...
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Dec. 21, 2021 News
Prior to NPT review conference, Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition requests government to make progress on nuclear disarmament
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer On December 20, prior to the Nuclear Non-Prol...
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Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains 76 years after atomic bombing—Photos of A-bombing destruction, Part 1: Hondori shopping street devastation captured by Mitsugi Kishida
Dec. 5, 2021 Featuresby Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer A-bombing photographs of the horror of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing have been introduced through A-bomb exhibits and photo anthologies, conveying to people in Japa...
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Oct. 18, 2021 Features
Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Recreating cityscapes: Photos of Hiroshima Communications Bureau and young Suzuko Numata
A-bombed Chinese parasol tree in bureau courtyard provided emotional support for...
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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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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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Aug. 6, 2021
Opinion
Editorial: 76th anniversary of Hiroshima A-bombing—Breaking down the myth of nuclear deterrence
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the Unite...
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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. 26, 2021
Opinion
Reporter’s View: Handling the many ‘voids’ with care
by Miho Kuwajima, Staff Writer “There is a monument I sometimes stop by dur...
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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Satoko Sasaguchi, 90, Hiroshima—Conductor on “first streetcar” to run in aftermath of A-bombing
- Survivors’ Stories: Motoko Okinishi, 86, Asakita Ward, Hiroshima
- Survivors’ Stories: Kazuo Imanishi, 80, Hiroshima—Buried under the collapsed house and suffered keloid scars
- 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
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
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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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