by Taiki Yomura, Staff Writer On April 11, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in the city’s centrally located Naka Ward, announced it’s visitor count was 405,987 in fiscal 2021, which ended Mar...

Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains—Records of A-bombing disaster: Seiso Yamada, former staff writer, donates camera that captured mushroom cloud photo two minutes after A-bombing to Chugoku Shimbun

by Miho Kuwajima, Staff Writer Seiso Yamada, 93, a resident of the town of ...

Mayors for Peace membership increases sharply after Ukraine invasion as more cities approve of group’s aims — 70 new cities join on April 1

by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer Membership in the Mayors for Peace organiza...

Filming location Hiroshima shines as Drive My Car wins Oscar for best international movie, overturning the city’s ‘monochrome’ image

Local residents hope for tailwind to boost local film and tourism industries ...

“Regional security based on nuclear weapons” is an illusion I am too sad to be angry. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, opinions about, among others, how Japan should also arm itself with nucle...

Discounted Casualties:The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium, Part 6

by Akira Tashiro, Senior Staff Writer “Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of...

Story of Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra’s 50 years since turning pro, Chapter 1, Part 1: Starts in A-bombed city as volunteer orchestra of 85 people including students, priest

by Aya Nishimura, Staff Writer This year marks the Hiroshima Symphony Orche...

Hiroshima City’s fiscal 2022 budget proposal features plans for full-fledged downtown redevelopment, focus on peace and child rearing

by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer On January 31, the Hiroshima City governm...

My perspectives one year after TPNW’s entry into force, Part 2: Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice director of Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University

by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer Japan should make diplomatic efforts towa...

My perspectives one year after TPNW’s entry into force, Part 1: Izumi Nakamitsu, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear We...

Stephen 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...