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ATOMIC BOMBINGS

JAPAN
Jul 15, 2021
IOC president's Hiroshima visit fuels speculation about his true intent
A trip that's officially being made to send a message of peace has instead stirred controversy amid the pandemic and raised questions about Thomas Bach's real purpose.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
May 12, 2021
When a WWII bombardier found his humanity
When we talked that day, I learned much about my friend's actions during the war — conduct that made me admire him even more than I did before.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
May 2, 2021
Japan Times 1921: Crown Prince urges peace for world
While on tour in Europe a century ago, the man who would become Emperor Hirohito delivers a speech on world peace.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Apr 5, 2021
How a Georgian diplomat won hearts and minds in Japan
At the heart of his unusual connection with Japan is one local medical practitioner whom he feels forever indebted to.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 20, 2020
Never forget the struggles of conflict with these Japanese World War II films
Filmmakers are able to record the feelings of history in ways that you can't get from textbooks at school.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 12, 2020
The Nagasaki bombing wasn't the last aerial attack on Japan
Civilians always pay the highest price in war.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 12, 2020
Japan to fight ruling recognizing Hiroshima 'black rain' victims
The central government and Hiroshima local governments appealed Wednesday a landmark ruling last month by the Hiroshima District Court that had recognized more victims of radioactive “black rain,” caused by fallout from the atomic bombing of the city, as eligible for support.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 9, 2020
In milestone year, A-bomb survivor keeps up fight for nuclear disarmament
Terumi Tanaka was 13 when Nagasaki was bombed, and saw his relatives dying in the aftermath.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 9, 2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki struggle to preserve A-bombed relics 75 years later
The cities face a continuous dilemma over how to maintain ruins and how to find the money with which to do it.
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 7, 2020
Japan institute struggling to preserve A-bomb autopsy materials
Specimens from victims were held by the U.S. for almost 30 years. Now returned and fading, the government has refused to fund their digitization.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2020
The bombing of Hiroshima: 'I thought it was the end of the world'
Hibakusha Yachiyo Kato saw the full horrors of the A-bomb and has been telling her story since.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 5, 2020
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It's crucial to keep alive the idea that out of their ashes 75 years ago a better and more humane world can grow.
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JAPAN
Aug 4, 2020
Sharing Hiroshima's legacy in the age of COVID-19
Amid the pandemic, the city has been looking for ways to help hibakusha tell their stories and let the past live on.
JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2020
Is time running out to preserve Japan’s A-bomb legacy?
75 years on, Hiroshima and Nagasaki scramble to preserve the memories of those who survived the atomic bombings
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Aug 1, 2020
Japan Times 1945: New-type bombs used in raid on Hiroshima
Readers get news of a new bomb being used by the Americans in the war.
JAPAN / History
Jul 31, 2020
Time fails to dim Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Peace Declarations
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely have some effect on this year's ceremonies marking the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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JAPAN / History
Jul 23, 2020
Hiroshima diaries: My grandmother-in-law’s survival story
Michiko Yoshitsuka was working in a munitions factory when the city was bombed in 1945.
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JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Feb 10, 2020
Rediscovery of study on Nagasaki atomic bomb blast spotlights pioneering work by Kamekichi Sugimoto
A comparative study report on the development of child survivors of atomic blasts and those unexposed to radiation by the first chair of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, Kamekichi Sugimoto, who died in 1979 at 77, has been discovered in the city of Nagasaki. The documents were retrieved from...
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2020
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to visit Hiroshima in August
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday he will visit Hiroshima in August for the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2019
With visit to Japan, Pope Francis will fulfill decades-old dream of teaching the faith in Japan
Pope Francis' trip to Japan this weekend might fulfill a wish he gave up on decades ago as a young man in South America.

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