News
- Aug. 7, 2025
- 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
- A-bomb survivors disappointed by PM’s no answer: Ishiba expresses willingness to issue message based on war’s 80th anniversary but avoids timing
- Aug. 7, 2025
- 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
- Aug. 7, 2025
- 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
- Aug. 6, 2025
- Documenting Hiroshima of 1946: August 5 and 6, one year after A-bombing, deepened feelings of longing for the dead
Silent Witness
Features
- Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — Devastation from nuclear weapons must be recorded in human world history
- Photographs of the Dead Speak
- Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945 to 2025 — In December 2024, Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- Documenting Hiroshima, Witnesses to horrors of atomic bombing: Tsunehiro Tomoda Part 3, Returns to Japan with help of “eomeoni”
- Documenting Hiroshima, Witnesses to horrors of atomic bombing: Tsunehiro Tomoda Part 1, His mother and younger brother killed in Atomic Bombing, which he experienced 460 meters from hypocenter
Survivors' Stories
- Survivors’ Stories: Mineko Nakagawa, 95, Minami Ward, Hiroshima City―Witnessing younger brother’s tragic final moments
- 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
Opinion
- Editorial: With number of A-bomb survivors below 100,000, Japan should also take responsibility for passing on legacy
- Editorial: Two years on, has Hiroshima Summit lost its significance?
- Editorial: NPT Preparatory Committee meeting fails to produce recommendations, nuclear weapon states must fulfill their disarmament obligations first
- Editorial: Let us carry on the late pope’s wish to abolish nuclear weapons
- Column: Words of Pope Francis
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
