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Yokohama, Hiroshima log first population losses of postwar era

原爆は何日に落とされた？正答率9割超、過去最高　広島市立の小中高

Hiroshima sake (広島の酒)

Hiroshima stands as one of Japan’s three great sake-producing regions, alongside Nada in Hyogo and Fushimi in Kyoto. Its sake carries a particular softness. Soft water, long-term l...

From Little Boy to Deterrence: The Bomb We Used and the Bombs We Threaten to Use

At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, a bomb nicknamed Little Boy exploded over Hiroshima.Continue reading on Medium »

List of Hiroshima A-bomb victims given airing

The register lists the names, ages and dates of death for 349,246 individuals confirmed to have died as of Aug. 5 last year. One volume is for those whose names remain unknown.

Remember Your Humanity

TOKYO, Japan, July 10 (IPS) - Eighty years since the dawn of the nuclear age, which began with the first nuclear test in New Mexico, USA, and with the tragic atomic bombings of Hi...

Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a filmThe memoir of a man who survived the h...

Record 127 nations and regions to attend Hiroshima ceremony

Among nuclear states, Britain, France, India and Israel said they are scheduled to join the peace memorial ceremony.

Hiroshima hibakusha group’s head, Mimaki, steps down

Hiroshi Harada, 86, deputy leader of the group of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors and former head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, will succeed Mimaki.

攻撃受けたイラン学校の遺族、広島招待をNPO計画　平和式典参加も

Nisei Veterans Memorial Center presents “An Afternoon with the Author” featuring Stephen Miwa

Miwa will share the extraordinary rediscovered diary of his father, Larry Fumio Miwa, a Hiroshima survivor whose firsthand account offers rare insight into one of history’s most de...

Nagasaki officials conduct annual airing of A-bomb victim register

The register, which records the names of 202,053 victims, was exposed to the air to remove moisture after municipal employees offered a silent prayer.

朝鮮人被爆者の証言記録　91歳朴寿南さんの作品、広島で劇場初公開

Number of hibakusha drops to 91,105

The average age of hibakusha rose from 86.13 to 86.66.