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National Peace Memorial Hall attracts record high 434,215 visitors in fiscal 2024 against backdrop of unstable world situation
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Mar. 11, 2025
News
U.N. accepts applications for training program of Youth Leader for World without Nuclear Weapons, 100 members to be selected, 18-29 year olds from around world
The United Nations has begun accepting applications for the second cohort of par...
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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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Mar. 7, 2025 News
Replicas of Nobel Peace Prize medal, certificate to be displayed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima City’s plan
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer Replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and cer...
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Mar. 7, 2025 News
Hiroshima prefectural government to set up booth at Osaka Expo around August 6, VR experience of devastation by atomic bombing, recovery
by Masanori Wada, Staff Writer Visitors to the Osaka, Kansai Expo will be ab...
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Mar. 2, 2025 News
“Paper crane displayed in Sadako’s hospital room” given to former U.S. President Barack Obama
Sadako’s nephew Yuji meets Obama in Hawaii by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer ...
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Feb. 19, 2025 News
Foreign Minister announces non-participation in TPNW, citing “hindrance to peace and security”
by Fumiyasu Miyano and Masaharu Nakagawa, Staff Writers Foreign Minister Ta...
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National Peace Memorial Hall attracts record high 434,215 visitors in fiscal 2024 against backdrop of unstable world situation
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Mar. 11, 2025
News
U.N. accepts applications for training program of Youth Leader for World without Nuclear Weapons, 100 members to be selected, 18-29 year olds from around world
The United Nations has begun accepting applications for the second cohort of par...
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Mar. 7, 2025 News
Replicas of Nobel Peace Prize medal, certificate to be displayed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima City’s plan
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer Replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and cer...
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Mar. 7, 2025 News
Hiroshima prefectural government to set up booth at Osaka Expo around August 6, VR experience of devastation by atomic bombing, recovery
by Masanori Wada, Staff Writer Visitors to the Osaka, Kansai Expo will be ab...
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Mar. 2, 2025 News
“Paper crane displayed in Sadako’s hospital room” given to former U.S. President Barack Obama
Sadako’s nephew Yuji meets Obama in Hawaii by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer ...
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Feb. 19, 2025 News
Foreign Minister announces non-participation in TPNW, citing “hindrance to peace and security”
by Fumiyasu Miyano and Masaharu Nakagawa, Staff Writers Foreign Minister Ta...
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Feb. 19, 2025
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Health Ministry to collect accounts of A-bomb experiences from all A-bomb survivors for first time in 30 years, to pass on experiences to next generation 80 years after atomic bombing
by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare...
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Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — First Peace Festival, August 1947
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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. 7, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 7: Efforts toward elimination of nuclear weapons driving force behind adoption of TPNW
Survivors undefeated by severe international situation by Fumiyasu Miyano and...
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Dec. 6, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 6: For survivors’ movement elsewhere, “If I were found out to be hibakusha, life would be impossible”
Finding hidden A-bomb survivors, providing support by Michiko Tanaka, Senior ...
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Dec. 5, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 5: A-bomb survivors make appeals internationally, striking chord with people in the West
Sight of survivors confronting hardship moved hearts by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staf...
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Dec. 4, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 4: Sit-ins-Ichiro Moritaki’s belief in protesting nuclear tests
Terrible sight of devastation was origin of his 470 sit-ins by Michio Shimota...
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Dec. 3, 2024 Features
Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 3: Split in movement to ban atomic and hydrogen bombs, resulting in two different survivors’ organizations with same name
Organizations collaborate on submitting demands and collecting signatures by ...
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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
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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
The Chugoku Shimbun Junior Writers Reporting
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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