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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
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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
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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 November 1995, Hiroshima and Nagasaki mayors deliver statements at ICJ
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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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May 15, 2025 Features
Unbridgeable gap within NPT Preparatory Committee, Part 2: Agreement at cost of not being able to share “inhuman nature” of nuclear weapons
Japan goes along with nuclear-weapon states, turning its back on TPNW by Fumi...
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May 15, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: In November 1994, Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law
Government’s bill did not include “national compensation” by Michio Shimotaka...
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May 14, 2025 Features
Unbridgeable gap within NPT Preparatory Committee, Part 1: Creation of third category, nations under nuclear umbrella, will be “new divide”
NPT affected by confrontations within international community by Fumiyasu Miy...
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Apr. 30, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 – In March 1978, Japan’s Supreme Court hands down ruling in “Son Jin Doo case”
“Atomic Bomb Medical Relief Law incorporates principle of national compensation”...
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Apr. 29, 2025 Features
Documenting Hiroshima, Witnesses to horrors of atomic bombing: Hiroe Kawashimo Part 2, mother and daughter move to A-bombed city seeking peaceful life
by Michiko Tanaka, Senior Staff Writer Hiroe Kawashimo, 79, Hiroshima’s Higas...
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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
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May 11, 2025
Opinion
Editorial: NPT Preparatory Committee meeting fails to produce recommendations, nuclear weapon states must fulfill their disarmament obligations first
Conflicts are flaring up in different corners of the world, and the risk of nucl...
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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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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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Leather gaiters worn by Mr. Yagi, who experienced the atomic bombing at the Chugoku District Military Headquarters (gaiters donated by Minoru Yagi in 1973; photograph taken by Naohiro Yamada)
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