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Number of Peace Memorial Museum visitors in fiscal 2021 increases by 23%, 400,000, with number of group visitors picking up slightly
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Apr. 16, 2022
News
Media exchange with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Media: You expressed your intent to visit the A-bombed city of Hiroshima at an e...
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Apr. 10, 2022 News
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 ...
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Apr. 6, 2022
News
Hiroshima Prefecture establishes new group for nuclear elimination by combining domestic and international NGOs to affect next UN goals
by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer On April 5, the Hiroshima Prefectural ...
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Apr. 4, 2022 Features
Views on Ukraine invasion from A-bombed Hiroshima’s perspective: Terumi Tanaka, 89, co-chair of Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations
“Regional security based on nuclear weapons” is an illusion I am too sad to...
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Apr. 2, 2022 News
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...
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Mar. 31, 2022
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General Conference of Mayors for Peace postponed until October for third time to avoid coincidence with NPT
by Junji Akechi, Staff Writer On March 30, Mayors for Peace (for which Hiro...
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Number of Peace Memorial Museum visitors in fiscal 2021 increases by 23%, 400,000, with number of group visitors picking up slightly
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Apr. 16, 2022
News
Media exchange with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Media: You expressed your intent to visit the A-bombed city of Hiroshima at an e...
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Apr. 10, 2022 News
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 ...
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Apr. 6, 2022
News
Hiroshima Prefecture establishes new group for nuclear elimination by combining domestic and international NGOs to affect next UN goals
by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer On April 5, the Hiroshima Prefectural ...
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Apr. 2, 2022 News
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...
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Mar. 31, 2022
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General Conference of Mayors for Peace postponed until October for third time to avoid coincidence with NPT
by Junji Akechi, Staff Writer On March 30, Mayors for Peace (for which Hiro...
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Mar. 29, 2022 News
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 ...
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Views on Ukraine invasion from A-bombed Hiroshima’s perspective: Terumi Tanaka, 89, co-chair of Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations
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Mar. 25, 2022 Features
Discounted Casualties:The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium, Part 6
by Akira Tashiro, Senior Staff Writer “Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of...
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Feb. 26, 2022
Features
Hiroshima expresses anger as Russia’s President Putin threatens countries that oppose invasion of Ukraine, suggests use of nuclear weapons
‘Unforgivable. Putin says whatever he pleases’ ‘In defiance of the entire w...
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Feb. 15, 2022 Features
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...
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Feb. 1, 2022 Features
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...
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Jan. 22, 2022 Features
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...
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Jan. 21, 2022 Features
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...
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75% of Japan’s public backs TPNW, in poll by U.S. researchers, revealing divide with resistant Japanese government
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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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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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Survivors' Stories
- 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
- 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
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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Clothing ration tickets that survived the fires from the atomic bombing in a safe deposit box. The tickets communicate a sense of life as it existed under government control during World War II. (Donated by Katsumi Yamada in 1985; photo taken by Hiroshi Takahashi)
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