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TV Asahi cancels performance of K-pop group BTS over member's Hiroshima A-bombing T-shirt
TV Asahi Corp. said Thursday it had canceled a live performance by K-pop group BTS amid a furor over a member having worn a controversial T-shirt, said by some to celebrate the use of atomic weapons against Japan during WWII. The controversy erupted over photos ...
Caroline Kennedy was in top form when she returned to Japan recently for a two-week visit. Following her arrival here on Oct. 25, the former ambassador's itinerary was nonstop. Highlights included her biking across the Seto Inland Sea in a race, Cycling Shimanami 2018, as ...
Words of regret run repeatedly through the mind of Yoshinori Kato: "I'm sorry I couldn't save you." On Aug. 6, 1945, when the city of Hiroshima was hit by a U.S. atomic bomb, Kato, now 90 but who was 17 at the time, said he ...
With Pope Francis expressing his intention to visit Japan next year, hopes are high among Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents and A-bomb survivors' groups that he may come to their cities. The Vatican has already ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and the ...
Use the moral authority of Hiroshima
Geopolitical tensions have spiked across the world. No arms control negotiations are currently under way to reduce global nuclear stockpiles.
Student peace ambassadors from Japan earlier this week called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at a reception in Geneva. In front of about 60 foreign diplomats at an event hosted by the Japanese delegation on the sidelines of the Conference on Disarmament, the 20 ...
English-speaking storyteller to visit Portugal and relay Nagasaki hibakusha experience
Mutsuko Yoshida is eager to gather as many details and facts as possible as a storyteller. But when it comes to accounts of hibakusha, she knows a certain line has to be drawn. As she gathers stories by talking with atomic bomb survivors, Yoshida understands ...
Photographer using project to pass on experiences of A-bomb survivors through family portraits
A 36-year-old female photographer is passing on the stories of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by taking family photos of third-generation survivors. Since 2015, Hiroshima resident Hiroko Doune has photographed over 70 families with third-generation hibakusha, whose grandparents were survivors of ...
How can we continue with a policy that we cannot explain to our next generation?
Grandchildren of hibakusha and B-29 crewman unite to press for nuclear-free world
The granddaughter of a survivor of the atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the grandson of the only U.S. serviceman who flew on both atomic bomb missions, have recognized each other's peace activities and share a determination to call for the abolition ...
Patrons recall Hiroshima beer hall that survived A-bombing to bring relief to survivors
Hiroshima Parco, a commercial facility popular with young people that's located in Hiroshima's Naka Ward, has some old tiles embedded in its walls. Few people know that the tiles used to be a part of an outer wall of a popular beer parlor that ...
60 years after Sadako Sasaki's death, the story behind Hiroshima's paper cranes is still unfolding
Young A-bomb victim's message resonates globally thanks largely to her classmates, who turned the origami bird into an icon of peace.
