News
- Apr. 16, 2022
- Media exchange with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- Apr. 12, 2022
- Number of Peace Memorial Museum visitors in fiscal 2021 increases by 23%, 400,000, with number of group visitors picking up slightly
- Apr. 10, 2022
- 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
- Apr. 6, 2022
- Hiroshima Prefecture establishes new group for nuclear elimination by combining domestic and international NGOs to affect next UN goals
- Apr. 2, 2022
- Mayors for Peace membership increases sharply after Ukraine invasion as more cities approve of group’s aims — 70 new cities join on April 1
Silent Witness
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
- Discounted Casualties:The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium, Part 6
- Hiroshima expresses anger as Russia’s President Putin threatens countries that oppose invasion of Ukraine, suggests use of nuclear weapons
- 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
- Hiroshima City’s fiscal 2022 budget proposal features plans for full-fledged downtown redevelopment, focus on peace and child rearing
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
Opinion
- Inhumane behavior is entirely unacceptable
- Editorial: Former Prime Minister Abe’s remarks on “nuclear sharing” completely unacceptable
- Editorial: One year after TPNW enters into force, why won’t the A-bombed nation of Japan participate in meeting as observer?
- Editorial: TPNW and Japan – Japan should not yield to interference from US
- An appeal for the Afghans we know and love
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
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
