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Pope Francis, dedicated to peace diplomacy and called for nuclear abolition with the message “Use of atomic energy is a crime,” dies
Apr. 22, 2025 Newsby Kohei Okata, Staff Writer “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is today, more than ever, a crime.” In his address in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, which he visited on November 24, 201...
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Apr. 22, 2025 News
As Hiroshima mourns Pope Francis, A-bomb survivors vow to carry on his legacy of peace
Sorrow pervaded the A-bombed city of Hiroshima following the news of Pope Franci...
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Mar. 28, 2025 News
A play about the late Ichiro Kawamoto, who — longing for peace — made efforts to erect Children’s Peace Monument and preserve the A-bomb Dome, will be staged this summer
by Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer This summer, which marks the 80th anniversa...
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Mar. 17, 2025 Features
Survivors’ Stories: Hiroshi Shimizu, 82, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City: His A-bomb testimony focusing on the “decade of void”
Suffered from diarrhea in his childhood, and always said “I feel tired” by Ik...
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Mar. 17, 2025 News
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: On August 6, 1955, throngs of people visit Peace Memorial Park
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Senior Staff Writer On August 6, 1955, 10 years after th...
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Mar. 17, 2025 News
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reaches 80 million visitors in 70th year since opening
by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer On March 16, the total number of visitors to ...
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Mar. 16, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — August 1955, World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
“Is it right that one atomic bomb should kill innocent people, the elderly, chil...
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Pope Francis, dedicated to peace diplomacy and called for nuclear abolition with the message “Use of atomic energy is a crime,” dies
Apr. 22, 2025 Newsby Kohei Okata, Staff Writer “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is today, more than ever, a crime.” In his address in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, which he visited on November 24, 201...
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Apr. 22, 2025 News
As Hiroshima mourns Pope Francis, A-bomb survivors vow to carry on his legacy of peace
Sorrow pervaded the A-bombed city of Hiroshima following the news of Pope Franci...
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Mar. 28, 2025 News
A play about the late Ichiro Kawamoto, who — longing for peace — made efforts to erect Children’s Peace Monument and preserve the A-bomb Dome, will be staged this summer
by Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer This summer, which marks the 80th anniversa...
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Mar. 17, 2025 News
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: On August 6, 1955, throngs of people visit Peace Memorial Park
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Senior Staff Writer On August 6, 1955, 10 years after th...
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Mar. 17, 2025 News
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reaches 80 million visitors in 70th year since opening
by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer On March 16, the total number of visitors to ...
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Mar. 16, 2025 News
Hiroshima Jogakuin University gives honorary doctorate to Ogura for giving A-bomb account in English
by Kanon Egashira, Staff Writer On March 15, Keiko Ogura, 87, an A-bomb survi...
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Mar. 15, 2025 News
94-year-old A-bomb survivor Nakagawa makes 3,000 paper cranes for peace in past three years, gives them to visitors to Hiroshima
by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer Mineko Nakagawa, 94, an A-bomb survivor liv...
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Survivors’ Stories: Hiroshi Shimizu, 82, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City: His A-bomb testimony focusing on the “decade of void”
Mar. 17, 2025 FeaturesSuffered from diarrhea in his childhood, and always said “I feel tired” by Ikumi Yorikane, Staff Writer There is a period that atomic bomb survivors call the “decade of void,” from immediately a...
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Mar. 16, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — August 1955, World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
“Is it right that one atomic bomb should kill innocent people, the elderly, chil...
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Feb. 16, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — In June 1950, Korean War begins; in August, Peace Festival is canceled
“Amid the tense international situation today, I hope it is indicated to the wor...
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Jan. 26, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — First Peace Festival, August 1947
“I read out the peace declaration, hoping that even if the voice delivered from ...
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Dec. 14, 2024 Features
Hiroshima and Film, Part 6: Kazuki Iwamoto―Director of Fukuyama Ekimae Cinema Mode
“Kazoku” (‘Where Spring comes Late’; released in 1970) Director: Yoji Yamada ...
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Dec. 14, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize — The Light in Oslo, Part 2: Reaffirming significance of “nuclear taboo”
by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer “The nuclear taboo” is the norm defining any...
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Dec. 13, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize — The Light in Oslo, Part 1: Words of hibakusha echo around the world
by Michio Shimotaka and Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writers The Japan Confederatio...
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Walk, listen, consider: 80 years since the A-bombings and the “A-bomb trial” — Relearn court decision that ruled the bombings violated international law
Jan. 22, 2025 OpinionInterview with Kenichi Okubo, President, Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms by Makoto Iwasaki, Special Editorial Writer The “A-bomb trial,” in which the atomic bombings of Hiroshi...
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Mar. 9, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: As the meeting of States Parties to the TPNW closes, “division” must be overcome
Three months have passed since the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japan Co...
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Oct. 12, 2024
Opinion
Editorial: Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize: Booster for a world without nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons must never be used again. The appeals and actions of hibakusha h...
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Sep. 7, 2024
Opinion
Editorial: The A-bomb trial and the world―A-bombed country should send out the message again that the atomic bombings were a “violation of international law”
A high-profile “ruling” was handed down yesterday in the world of television. Th...
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Aug. 6, 2024
Opinion
Editorial: 79 years after A-bombing of Hiroshima, action required to transcend nuclear deterrence theory
Today marks 79 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
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Jun. 27, 2024 Opinion
Tetsuji Kumada, 67, newly appointed to post of secretary-general of Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations
by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer On July 3, Tetsuji Kumada, 67, assumed th...
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Jun. 11, 2024 Opinion
Did you know? Basic information about A-bombed Hiroshima—Radioactive dust, soot
by Hiromi Morita, Staff Writer Q: Why was the rain that fell shortly afte...
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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Kim Hwaja, 84, Kure City—Having suffered from “double hardship”
- Survivors’ Stories: Miyako Yano, 93, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima City—Having survived A-bombing, she placed the blame on herself
- Survivors’ Stories: Fumie Yoshida, 95, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City After losing her father and sisters, she vowed to live, supporting her mother, who cried with her daughter’s skull in her arms
- Survivors’ Stories: Tomie Mito, 106, Fuchu-cho, Hiroshima―Her father died in the atomic bombing, and her unborn child was exposed
- Survivors’ Stories: Kiyomi Kono, 93, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City
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Junior Writers Reporting: Interviews with people who visited Oslo in Norway at the time of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony
On December 10 last year, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), the national organization of A-bomb survivors (hibakusha), received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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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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Miyoko Matsumoto’s baggy monpe work pants found on August 6, 1946, in the area of Zakoba-cho, where building-demolition work had taken place, resulting in the deaths of many students. The work pants were donated by Sachiko Miyata to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in 1997. (Photograph taken by Naohiro Yamada)
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