News
- Apr. 15, 2024
- High school students create paintings of A-bomb horror based on survivors’ experiences
- Apr. 12, 2024
- Hiroshima Governor sends letter of request to Russia, calling for cancellation of nuclear test
- Apr. 12, 2024
- Former Akatsuki Corps child soldiers, who trained for suicide attacks and engaged in rescue work after A-bombing, call for end to war in special exhibit at Hiroshima National Memorial Hall
- Apr. 12, 2024
- Prime Minister Kishida speaks to U.S. Congress Joint Meeting, emphasizes importance of U.S.-Japan partnership but does not request cooperation for “world without nuclear weapons”
- Apr. 9, 2024
- Hiroshima mayor quotes prewar Imperial Rescript on Education in lecture at training for newly hired city employees, employs constitution preamble
Silent Witness
MoreFeatures
- My guidepost, Hiroshima pioneers: Hiromu Morishita, 93, A-bomb survivor and teacher, speaks about Barbara Reynolds
- An anti-nuclear life, Part 3: Teruo Niinobe (Western painter, 1922–2012)
- Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Chugoku Shimbun and the press code — Surveillance of articles with A-bombing content, Part 5: Efforts made to conceal health effects
- Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 5: Interview with Seiichiro Takemine, professor, Meisei University
- Questions from the Marshall Islands 70 years after Bikini Atoll disaster, Part 4: Double hardship
Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Minoru Hataguchi, 77, Hatsukaichi City—Overcoming undying hatred, he shares his A-bomb account
- Survivors’ Stories: Yasuko Kondo, 83, Nishi Ward, Hiroshima City — Walked across ruins of Hiroshima at age four
- Survivors’ Stories: Bae Soja, 83, Minami Ward, Hiroshima City – Forever yearning for lost father
- Survivors’ Stories: Junko Yamase, 86, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City―Inspired by her friend, she began sharing her A-bomb account
- Survivors’ Stories: Haruko Nagai, 95, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City – Atomic bombing eats away at both her body and mind
Opinion
- The Way We Were-From Jewish school days in Tehran, to a wish and a prayer from Hiroshima
- Opinion: The Way We Were
- Editorial: Second TPNW states parties’ meeting ends, but Japan also should join efforts to support nuclear victims
- Nobel Peace Prize: THINKING IRAN IN HIROSHIMA
- Editorial: Nuclear deterrence policy and August 6 — Hopes of Hiroshima’s people should be taken to heart
The Chugoku Shimbun Junior Writers Reporting
Junior Writers Reporting: There are no nuclear weapons on a sustainable planet
January 22, 2024, marked the third anniversary of the effectuation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which bans the production, possession and use of nuclear weapons. In time
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