News
- Apr. 29, 2025
- Patti Smith visits Hiroshima, talks with atomic bomb survivor
- Apr. 27, 2025
- 39 years after Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster: People in Hiroshima stage a sit-in protest, arguing “Humans and nuclear power cannot coexist”
- Apr. 26, 2025
- King of Denmark lays flowers at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims
- Apr. 25, 2025
- Learning about threat of nuclear weapons: Report on American Red Cross program delivered at Hiroshima Red Cross
- Apr. 22, 2025
- Pope Francis, dedicated to peace diplomacy and called for nuclear abolition with the message “Use of atomic energy is a crime,” dies
Silent Witness
Features
- Documenting of Hiroshima, Witnesses: Michiko Matsui, Part 2
- Documenting of Hiroshima, Witnesses: Michiko Matsui (Part 1)
- Survivors’ Stories: Hiroshi Shimizu, 82, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City: His A-bomb testimony focusing on the “decade of void”
- Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — August 1955, World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
- Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — In June 1950, Korean War begins; in August, Peace Festival is canceled
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
Opinion
- Editorial: Let us carry on the late pope’s wish to abolish nuclear weapons
- Editorial: As the meeting of States Parties to the TPNW closes, “division” must be overcome
- Walk, listen, consider: 80 years since the A-bombings and the “A-bomb trial” — Relearn court decision that ruled the bombings violated international law
- Editorial: Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize: Booster for a world without nuclear weapons
- 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”
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.
Peace Movies
Media exchange with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on March 26, 2022
A-bomb Images
- Yoshito Matsushige’s five photo negatives
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 3: Living materials
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 2: On verge of deteriorating
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 1: Only remaining photos taken that day
- Photographic negatives taken by Yoshito Matsushige designated as Hiroshima’s important cultural properties
