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IPPNW World Congress to be held in Nagasaki October 2–4: First event hosted by Japan in 13 years to address nuclear disarmament, role of physicians
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Oct. 1, 2025
Features
Nagata-cho News: Policies of five LDP leadership candidates, Part 1—All candidates hesitant about TPNW, agree on establishment of new disaster agency
by Shinya Hori, Masaharu Nakagawa, and Masaya Akiyoshi, Staff Writers The fiv...
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Sep. 18, 2025 News
80 years after A-bombing: Toward Nuclear Abolition, WFC peace delegation to depart for U.S. tomorrow
Symposium participation, meeting with U.S. citizens, school visits by Yuji Ya...
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Sep. 5, 2025 News
Hiroshima University to study impact of peace museum’s exhibits on children; Stress reaction study for exhibits in planned children’s space
by Aya Kano, Staff Writer The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located in the ...
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Sep. 3, 2025 News
Hiroshima Round Table concludes: Chair Kiichi Fujiwara warns at press conference, “If nuclear deterrence fails, nuclear war will occur”
by Eriko Shintani, Staff Writer On September 2, two days of discussions for t...
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Sep. 2, 2025 News
Hiroshima Round Table opens: Experts from seven countries discuss nuclear abolition, seek path beyond nuclear deterrence theory
by Eriko Shintani, Staff Writer On September 1, the Hiroshima Prefectural gov...
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Aug. 25, 2025 News
Sarashina, A-bomb survivor in U.S., “meets” wife’s memoir for first time with tears at Memorial Hall while visiting Hiroshima with family
by Yumi Kanazaki and Natsumi Hiyama, Staff Writers This month, on the 80th an...
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IPPNW World Congress to be held in Nagasaki October 2–4: First event hosted by Japan in 13 years to address nuclear disarmament, role of physicians
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Sep. 18, 2025 News
80 years after A-bombing: Toward Nuclear Abolition, WFC peace delegation to depart for U.S. tomorrow
Symposium participation, meeting with U.S. citizens, school visits by Yuji Ya...
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Sep. 5, 2025 News
Hiroshima University to study impact of peace museum’s exhibits on children; Stress reaction study for exhibits in planned children’s space
by Aya Kano, Staff Writer The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located in the ...
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Sep. 3, 2025 News
Hiroshima Round Table concludes: Chair Kiichi Fujiwara warns at press conference, “If nuclear deterrence fails, nuclear war will occur”
by Eriko Shintani, Staff Writer On September 2, two days of discussions for t...
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Sep. 2, 2025 News
Hiroshima Round Table opens: Experts from seven countries discuss nuclear abolition, seek path beyond nuclear deterrence theory
by Eriko Shintani, Staff Writer On September 1, the Hiroshima Prefectural gov...
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Aug. 25, 2025 News
Sarashina, A-bomb survivor in U.S., “meets” wife’s memoir for first time with tears at Memorial Hall while visiting Hiroshima with family
by Yumi Kanazaki and Natsumi Hiyama, Staff Writers This month, on the 80th an...
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Aug. 16, 2025 News
Hiroshima Gas Propane begins supplying decarbonized gas to Flame of Peace next month
by Mitsuhisa Ogawa, Staff Writer Hiroshima Gas Propane Co., Ltd. (Kaita-cho, ...
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Hiroshima and Film, Part 13: Toru Mizoguchi―Manager of Yokogawa Cinema
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Oct. 1, 2025
Features
Nagata-cho News: Policies of five LDP leadership candidates, Part 1—All candidates hesitant about TPNW, agree on establishment of new disaster agency
by Shinya Hori, Masaharu Nakagawa, and Masaya Akiyoshi, Staff Writers The fiv...
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Jun. 29, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — Devastation from nuclear weapons must be recorded in human world history
“May this record of our photographs forever be the last of its kind” The Chug...
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Jun. 27, 2025
Features
Photographs of the Dead Speak
Being the newspaper based in the A-bombed city, from 1997 to 2000 the Chugoku Sh...
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Jun. 15, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945 to 2025 — In December 2024, Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize
‘Hibakusha have demonstrated through their witness testimonies that nuclear weap...
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Jun. 13, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima, Witnesses to horrors of atomic bombing: Tsunehiro Tomoda Part 3, Returns to Japan with help of “eomeoni”
by Michiko Tanaka, Senior Staff Writer Tsunehiro Tomoda, 89, who now lives in...
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Jun. 11, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima, Witnesses to horrors of atomic bombing: Tsunehiro Tomoda Part 1, His mother and younger brother killed in Atomic Bombing, which he experienced 460 meters from hypocenter
To the Korean Peninsula with “Aboji” by Michiko Tanaka, Senior Staff Writer ...
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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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Jul. 13, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: With number of A-bomb survivors below 100,000, Japan should also take responsibility for passing on legacy
According to a Chugoku Shimbun survey, the number of atomic bomb survivors with ...
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Jun. 27, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: U.S. president should look squarely at catastrophic consequences of using nuclear weapons
He probably still cannot even imagine what nuclear weapons will bring to humanit...
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May 20, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: Two years on, has Hiroshima Summit lost its significance?
It already feels like a long time ago. Two years ago yesterday, the A-bombed cit...
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May 11, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: NPT Preparatory Committee meeting fails to produce recommendations, nuclear weapon states must fulfill their disarmament obligations first
Conflicts are flaring up in different corners of the world, and the risk of nucl...
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Apr. 23, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: Let us carry on the late pope’s wish to abolish nuclear weapons
“The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possessing...
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Apr. 23, 2025
Opinion
Column: Words of Pope Francis
Pope Francis emphasized the theme of protecting all lives when he visited Japan ...
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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Toshiyuki Mimaki, 83, Kitahiroshima-cho, Hiroshima―Thinking of his predecessors, he begins A-bomb survivors’ movement
- Survivors’ Stories: Mineko Nakagawa, 95, Minami Ward, Hiroshima City―Witnessing younger brother’s tragic final moments
- Survivors’ Stories: Keiji Harada, 95, Saeki Ward, Hiroshima City: Schoolgirls, still childlike in appearance, plead for water
- 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
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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Leather gaiters worn by Mr. Yagi, who experienced the atomic bombing at the Chugoku District Military Headquarters (gaiters donated by Minoru Yagi in 1973; photograph taken by Naohiro Yamada)
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