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On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Peace Declaration calls for building civil society consensus on nuclear abolition, urging young people to take action with “never give up” spirit
Aug. 7, 2025 Newsby Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer The annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony was held in Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward by the City of Hiroshima on August 6, the 80th anniversary of ...
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Aug. 7, 2025
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A-bomb survivors disappointed by PM’s no answer: Ishiba expresses willingness to issue message based on war’s 80th anniversary but avoids timing
by Masaharu Nakagawa, Staff Writer In a press conference held in Naka Ward, H...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Invited by Hiroshima City, 10 representatives of A-bomb survivors and bereaved families from the United States, South Korea, and Brazil attend Peace Memorial Ceremony
by Rie Nii, Staff Writer On August 6, a total of 10 representatives of atomic...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Hiroshima City again restricts entry to Peace Memorial Park; improves guidance for A-bomb survivors and elderly; quarrel over removal order in front of A-bomb Dome
by Hajime Niiyama and Yu Yamada, Staff Writers On August 6, the Hiroshima mun...
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Aug. 6, 2025
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Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2025 The day will come when there are no more hibakusha left in the...
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Aug. 6, 2025
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The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
Eighty years ago, Hiroshima was strewn with bodies too damaged to identify even ...
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Jul. 26, 2025 News
[80 Years After the Atomic Bombing: Relay Essays]Passing on the hope for peace, Nassrine Azimi, co founder/coordinator, Green Legacy Hiroshima
In October 2024 I read a daunting article, result of a 6-month investigation by ...
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On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Peace Declaration calls for building civil society consensus on nuclear abolition, urging young people to take action with “never give up” spirit
Aug. 7, 2025 Newsby Hiroaki Watanabe, Staff Writer The annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony was held in Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward by the City of Hiroshima on August 6, the 80th anniversary of ...
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Aug. 7, 2025
News
A-bomb survivors disappointed by PM’s no answer: Ishiba expresses willingness to issue message based on war’s 80th anniversary but avoids timing
by Masaharu Nakagawa, Staff Writer In a press conference held in Naka Ward, H...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Invited by Hiroshima City, 10 representatives of A-bomb survivors and bereaved families from the United States, South Korea, and Brazil attend Peace Memorial Ceremony
by Rie Nii, Staff Writer On August 6, a total of 10 representatives of atomic...
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Aug. 7, 2025 News
Hiroshima City again restricts entry to Peace Memorial Park; improves guidance for A-bomb survivors and elderly; quarrel over removal order in front of A-bomb Dome
by Hajime Niiyama and Yu Yamada, Staff Writers On August 6, the Hiroshima mun...
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Aug. 6, 2025
News
Commitment to Peace
August 6, 2025 The day will come when there are no more hibakusha left in the...
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Aug. 6, 2025
News
The City of Hiroshima：PEACE DECLARATION
Eighty years ago, Hiroshima was strewn with bodies too damaged to identify even ...
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Jul. 26, 2025 News
[80 Years After the Atomic Bombing: Relay Essays]Passing on the hope for peace, Nassrine Azimi, co founder/coordinator, Green Legacy Hiroshima
In October 2024 I read a daunting article, result of a 6-month investigation by ...
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Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — In August 1960, campaign begins to preserve A-bomb Dome
Apr. 6, 2025 Features“Out of sight, out of mind” Deaths of parents and friends in bombing should not be forgotten by Minami Yamashita and Michio Shimotaka, Staff Writers, and Kyosuke Mizukawa, Senior Staff Writer I...
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Jun. 27, 2025
Features
Photographs of the Dead Speak
Being the newspaper based in the A-bombed city, from 1997 to 2000 the Chugoku Sh...
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Apr. 4, 2025 Features
Documenting of Hiroshima, Witnesses: Michiko Matsui, Part 2
She shares her experience with her colleagues’ sorrows in mind by Michiko Tan...
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Apr. 3, 2025 Features
Documenting of Hiroshima, Witnesses: Michiko Matsui (Part 1)
All young members gathered for the Ayumi group had gloomy eyes A couple who h...
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Mar. 17, 2025 Features
Survivors’ Stories: Hiroshi Shimizu, 82, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City: His A-bomb testimony focusing on the “decade of void”
Suffered from diarrhea in his childhood, and always said “I feel tired” by Ik...
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Mar. 16, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — August 1955, World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
“Is it right that one atomic bomb should kill innocent people, the elderly, chil...
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Feb. 16, 2025 Features
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
“Amid the tense international situation today, I hope it is indicated to the wor...
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Walk, listen, consider: 80 years since the A-bombings and the “A-bomb trial” — Relearn court decision that ruled the bombings violated international law
Jan. 22, 2025 OpinionInterview with Kenichi Okubo, President, Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms by Makoto Iwasaki, Special Editorial Writer The “A-bomb trial,” in which the atomic bombings of Hiroshi...
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Apr. 23, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: Let us carry on the late pope’s wish to abolish nuclear weapons
“The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possessing...
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Apr. 23, 2025
Opinion
Column: Words of Pope Francis
Pope Francis emphasized the theme of protecting all lives when he visited Japan ...
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Mar. 9, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: As the meeting of States Parties to the TPNW closes, “division” must be overcome
Three months have passed since the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japan Co...
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Oct. 12, 2024
Opinion
Editorial: Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize: Booster for a world without nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons must never be used again. The appeals and actions of hibakusha h...
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Sep. 7, 2024
Opinion
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”
A high-profile “ruling” was handed down yesterday in the world of television. Th...
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Aug. 6, 2024
Opinion
Editorial: 79 years after A-bombing of Hiroshima, action required to transcend nuclear deterrence theory
Today marks 79 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
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Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Keiji Harada, 95, Saeki Ward, Hiroshima City: Schoolgirls, still childlike in appearance, plead for water
- 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
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.
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Media exchange with U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on March 26, 2022
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Miyoko Matsumoto’s baggy monpe work pants found on August 6, 1946, in the area of Zakoba-cho, where building-demolition work had taken place, resulting in the deaths of many students. The work pants were donated by Sachiko Miyata to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in 1997. (Photograph taken by Naohiro Yamada)
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