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On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Peace Declaration calls for building civil society consensus on nuclear abolition, urging young people to take action with “never give up” spirit
Aug. 7, 2025 Newsby Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer The annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony was held in Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward by the City of Hiroshima on August 6, the 80th anniversary of ...
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Aug. 7, 2025
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A-bomb survivors disappointed by PM’s no answer: Ishiba expresses willingness to issue message based on war’s 80th anniversary but avoids timing
by Masaharu Nakagawa, Staff Writer In a press conference held in Naka Ward, H...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Invited by Hiroshima City, 10 representatives of A-bomb survivors and bereaved families from the United States, South Korea, and Brazil attend Peace Memorial Ceremony
by Rie Nii, Staff Writer On August 6, a total of 10 representatives of atomic...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Hiroshima City again restricts entry to Peace Memorial Park; improves guidance for A-bomb survivors and elderly; quarrel over removal order in front of A-bomb Dome
by Hajime Niiyama and Yu Yamada, Staff Writers On August 6, the Hiroshima mun...
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Aug. 6, 2025 News
Documenting Hiroshima of 1946: August 5 and 6, one year after A-bombing, deepened feelings of longing for the dead
by Maho Yamamoto and Minami Yamashita, Staff Writers In August 1946, one year...
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Aug. 6, 2025
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Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2025 The day will come when there are no more hibakusha left in the...
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Aug. 6, 2025
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The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
Eighty years ago, Hiroshima was strewn with bodies too damaged to identify even ...
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On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Peace Declaration calls for building civil society consensus on nuclear abolition, urging young people to take action with “never give up” spirit
Aug. 7, 2025 Newsby Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer The annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony was held in Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward by the City of Hiroshima on August 6, the 80th anniversary of ...
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Aug. 7, 2025
News
A-bomb survivors disappointed by PM’s no answer: Ishiba expresses willingness to issue message based on war’s 80th anniversary but avoids timing
by Masaharu Nakagawa, Staff Writer In a press conference held in Naka Ward, H...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Invited by Hiroshima City, 10 representatives of A-bomb survivors and bereaved families from the United States, South Korea, and Brazil attend Peace Memorial Ceremony
by Rie Nii, Staff Writer On August 6, a total of 10 representatives of atomic...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Hiroshima City again restricts entry to Peace Memorial Park; improves guidance for A-bomb survivors and elderly; quarrel over removal order in front of A-bomb Dome
by Hajime Niiyama and Yu Yamada, Staff Writers On August 6, the Hiroshima mun...
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Aug. 6, 2025 News
Documenting Hiroshima of 1946: August 5 and 6, one year after A-bombing, deepened feelings of longing for the dead
by Maho Yamamoto and Minami Yamashita, Staff Writers In August 1946, one year...
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Aug. 6, 2025
News
Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2025 The day will come when there are no more hibakusha left in the...
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Aug. 6, 2025
News
The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
Eighty years ago, Hiroshima was strewn with bodies too damaged to identify even ...
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Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — Devastation from nuclear weapons must be recorded in human world history
Jun. 29, 2025 Features“May this record of our photographs forever be the last of its kind” The Chugoku Shimbun’s “Documenting Hiroshima” series of articles reports on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the lives of the...
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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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May 22, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: August 1, 2002, Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims opens doors
Photographs, accounts of experiences stored and made available to public by M...
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May 21, 2025 Features
Where we are now: Two years since Hiroshima Summit, Part 2: Power of young people
Strengthened desire to “convey tragic circumstances” A-bomb survivors hope fo...
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May 20, 2025 Features
Where we are now: Two years since Hiroshima Summit, Part 1: Hopes fade for world without nuclear weapons
by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer Two years have passed since the summit meeting ...
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May 18, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — In November 1995, Hiroshima and Nagasaki mayors deliver statements at ICJ
“Starting point should be the thoughts and feelings of those who died under the ...
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May 16, 2025 Features
Unbridgeable gap within NPT Preparatory Committee, Part 3: Young people sympathize with A-bomb survivors’ stories
Pinning hope on solidarity of cities by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer On t...
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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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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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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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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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Survivors' Stories
- 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
- 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
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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