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ATOMIC BOMBINGS

JAPAN
Apr 21, 2016
Hiroshima mayor seeks no apology by Obama for A-bombing
Hiroshima's mayor indicated Thursday he is not seeking an apology for the atomic bombing of the city if U.S. President Barack Obama decides to visit sometime around the Group of Seven summit in Mie Prefecture next month.
EDITORIALS
Apr 15, 2016
Pushing abolition of nuclear arms
Hopefully, the Hiroshima Declaration on disarmament will provide much-needed momentum to ridding the globe of nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Apr 13, 2016
White House offers fresh hints on possible visit to Hiroshima by Obama
Tokyo keeps quiet in the wake of new signals, giving Washington time to test the reaction of the U.S. public.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2016
Hiroshima survivors look to Obama visit for disarmament, not apology
Progress on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, not an apology, is what Hiroshima would want from a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the city wiped out in the U.S. atomic bombing 71 years ago, survivors and other residents said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 11, 2016
G-7 ministers adopt Hiroshima Declaration hoping to add momentum to nonproliferation movement
The Group of Seven foreign ministers conclude a historic two-day meeting in Hiroshima that saw them discuss the goal of global nuclear disarmament in the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 9, 2016
G-7 foreign ministers to weigh nuclear future at Hiroshima meeting
The G-7 foreign ministers' summit taking place in Hiroshima carries a symbolic meaning as it offers an opportunity for world leaders to be reminded of the horrors of nuclear arms.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 4, 2015
Stimson's love of Kyoto saved it from A-bomb
The glories of Kyoto impressed Henry Stimson, and the decisions he made decades later as the U.S. secretary of war.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 28, 2015
Who saved Kyoto from the atomic hellfire?
Many Americans have been given credit for sparing Kyoto from bombings, both conventional and atomic, during World War II, but it turns out that an old secretary of war was responsible.
EDITORIALS
Oct 4, 2015
It's time for world to ratify CTBT
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty still hasn't come into force, and all countries everywhere should do everything they can to get the remaining eight key nations on board.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2015
Grandson of atomic bomb crewman writes of hibakusha horrors
The grandson of a U.S. serviceman who flew on both planes that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 has devoted himself to a project almost unimaginable 70 years ago: spreading the stories of horror experienced by the hibakusha.
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2015
Justice for A-bomb victims overseas
The Supreme Court issues a much-welcomed decisive ruling that atomic-bomb victims living abroad deserve full medical coverage by the Japanese government.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 15, 2015
An Obama visit to Hiroshima would send the right message
A visit to Hiroshima by U.S. President Barack Obama could serve as a step toward realizing his vision of 'a world without nuclear weapons.'
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 8, 2015
Supreme Court rules hibakusha overseas are entitled to full medical expenses
A landmark decision means thousands of atomic bomb survivors living outside of Japan will get full health coverage.
EDITORIALS
Sep 3, 2015
Nuclear disarmament needs a push
Momentum for nuclear disarmament as been on the wane, and all nations — Japan especially — should renew their efforts to end the dire threat posed by nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 15, 2015
Psychology is where real radiation risks lie
Misinformation breeds discrimination. As if it wasn't enough to experience the trauma of a nuclear bomb, many hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) also faced appalling discrimination.
JAPAN / Society / 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR'S END
Aug 11, 2015
Offspring have hard time relating hibakusha experience but have same health fears
Facing his fellow survivors of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Atsushi Takeshita begrudgingly announced last month that his group, comprised of about 100 hibakusha, will put an end to more than 60 years of activity because its members are getting too old.
JAPAN / History / 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR'S END
Aug 7, 2015
Nagasaki's 'providential' nightmare shaped by religious, ethnic undercurrents
August is high season for tourism in Nagasaki. One morning last week at the Nagasaki Peace Park, the venue for an annual televised ceremony to commemorate the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of the city, throngs of tourists wearing name tags hanging from their necks were shuffling in and out of buses, snapping pictures in front of the iconic Peace Statue.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2015
Hibakusha of 'Korea's Hiroshima' still press for redress
The nuclear bomb detonated as a 16-year-old girl sat in a shanty town cradling her baby, waiting for her mother to return from selling candy.
JAPAN / History
Aug 5, 2015
How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This newspaper described the ebb and flow of the war in considerable detail. Censorship was in operation, but the Nippon Times offered voluminous coverage in English based on statements by the Imperial authorities, reports by vernacular Japanese newspapers and foreign news agency dispatches, archival...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015
The top-secret flights that ended the war
Seventy years after the atomic bombings, time stands still on the Pacific island of Tinian.
Japanese markets brace for triple whammy if opposition wins big
A Sanseito campaign van in Shinjuku. The populist party is gaining ground and challenging the more centrist parties.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
In Upper House race, younger voters in Tokyo turn to DPP for new direction
The Tokyo district has the highest number of candidates in the 2025 Upper House election with 32 people in the running for seven seats.
Concerns grow in Japan over possible Russian interference in Sunday’s election
A think tank researcher said anti-government propaganda by Russian bot accounts was what has made the small far-right party Sanseito so popular leading up to the Upper House election.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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