News
- 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
- Apr. 22, 2025
- As Hiroshima mourns Pope Francis, A-bomb survivors vow to carry on his legacy of peace
- Mar. 28, 2025
- A play about the late Ichiro Kawamoto, who — longing for peace — made efforts to erect Children’s Peace Monument and preserve the A-bomb Dome, will be staged this summer
- Mar. 17, 2025
- Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: On August 6, 1955, throngs of people visit Peace Memorial Park
- Mar. 17, 2025
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reaches 80 million visitors in 70th year since opening
Silent Witness
Features
- 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
- Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — First Peace Festival, August 1947
- Hiroshima and Film, Part 6: Kazuki Iwamoto―Director of Fukuyama Ekimae Cinema Mode
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: 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”
- Editorial: 79 years after A-bombing of Hiroshima, action required to transcend nuclear deterrence theory
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
