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About us

About

センター開設に向けた準備を進めるスタッフ

The Hiroshima Peace Media Center is a section of the Chugoku Shimbun, founded in 1892 and now one of Japan’s largest newspapers. We launched transmitting peace-related reporting via the internet in English and Japanese, as well as French, Russian, and Chinese, for the abolition of nuclear weapons and the advancement of peace in the world. The Peace Media Center website provides a range of multimedia content covering peace-related concerns. In conjunction with a steady stream of current news involving peace issues, the website also contains a well of reports published by the Chugoku Shimbun in the years since the bombing. In this way, the reality of the past can inform the present and function as a persuasive warning for the future. In addition, the Hiroshima Peace Media Center is involved in a number of activities that augment its online presence:

■ The Peace Media Center issues a special page of feature articles, published every week as an insert in the Chugoku Shimbun’s main newspaper. These articles, originally in Japanese, are translated into English to enhance the web content.

■ The Peace Media Center lends support to Peace Seeds, a peace newspaper produced by youth in Japan as another regular insert in the main newspaper. An accompanying web version of this newspaper is available in both English and Japanese.

■ The Peace Media Center facilitates a network of domestic and international institutions that share a kinship with our work. This network serves as a source of mutual support as well as special content for our coverage.

■ The Peace Media Center holds symposiums and lectures with specialists who present their views on peace issues for the public.

■ The Peace Media Center provides training for the next generation of journalists to uphold reporting related to the atomic bombings and peace issues.


The office of the Hiroshima Peace Media Center is found on the 4th floor of the Chugoku Shimbun headquarters in downtown Hiroshima.