News
- Sep. 1, 2022
- Special exhibition at Peace Memorial Museum shows doctors’ sufferings immediately after A-bombing
- Aug. 28, 2022
- NPT Review Conference 2022: With conference breakdown, A-bomb survivors and young people express disappointment and indignation
- Aug. 10, 2022
- World-renowned fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at age 84: He kept a wish for peace after experiencing atomic bombing when he was 7 years old
- Aug. 10, 2022
- Wish for peace underlies Issey Miyake’s creativity. His friends lament his death, saying an empty hole created in Japan’s art.
- Aug. 9, 2022
- Emiko Honma, second-generation A-bomb survivor, becomes chair of Shimane prefectural A-bomb survivors’ group: “Source of emotional support is necessary for survivors,” she says, considering interviews with survivors to pass down their experiences
Silent Witness
Features
- NPT Review Conference 2022: Conference again suffers breakdown, Part 1—Russia’s invasion
- Discounted Casualties:The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium
- Unknown A-bombing devastation must be uncovered—Detailed report on symposium “Memories of War: Striving to Fill Voids in Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains—A-bomb victims in photos, Part 3: Mother and child at relief station
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, evidence of victims remains—A-bomb victims in photos, Part 2: Woman wounded by glass shard
Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Terumi Tanaka, 90, Saitama Prefecture―I collapsed into tears when I cremated my aunt
- Survivors’ Stories: Takuji Yamashita, 92, Aki Ward, Hiroshima City – Burned his younger brother and sister to ashes by himself
- Survivors’ Stories: Masahiro Mimura, 76, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima City—Born as an in-utero survivor, became an orphan at 15
- Survivors’ Stories: Hideko Nagai, 91, Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima City—Worried parents called out for their missing children
- Survivors’ Stories: Shigeko Sasamori, 89, U.S. state of California—Traveled to U.S. to receive treatment for burn scars on face
Opinion
- Remembering Issey Miyake: his distance from Hiroshima and mixed feelings
- Akiko Mikamo, 60, writer of film that shows her father’s experience of atomic bombing, distributes film free of charge
- Editorial: On commemoration of 77th year since Hiroshima A-bombing, message of “No nuclear weapons’ use” must be delivered more forcefully
- Editorial: Prime Minister Kishida speaks at NPT Review Conference, needs to take leadership role in creating world without nuclear weapons
- Responses from Manchester City Council
The Chugoku Shimbun Junior Writers Reporting
Junior Writers Reporting: Picture book about Ms. Thurlow conveys her A-bombing experience to children
A picture book featuring Setsuko Thurlow, 90, an A-bomb survivor who lives in Canada, has been published by Chobunsha (Tokyo). The publication is based on a speech Ms. Thurlow delivered on behalf of 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
