Oyster firms suffer as travel ban exposes reliance on foreign trainees
The shortage of manpower due to the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to deal a heavy blow to Hiroshima Prefecture’s oyster industry.
Rules on buying farmland eased in rural Hiroshima amid depopulation
Smaller plots are being made available in a bid to attract younger people from the cities to the countryside.
Foreign trainees in Hiroshima face illegal hours and unpaid overtime
Fewer Japanese people want to work in sewing jobs, one industry insider said.
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 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.
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.
Iwakuni facility a remnant of 'special privileges' the city enjoyed for hosting base
Despite a range of benefits on offer to residents, the city itself is experiencing severe depopulation.
Traditional Hiroshima Shinto dance in peril due to coronavirus
Orders from local kagura communities — themselves grappling with the economic fallout of the pandemic — have stopped coming in.
Language barrier hampers flow of virus info to Hiroshima's foreign residents
Although the city’s website is equipped with a language-switch option, the question remains as to how many residents know about it.
Cities in Japan flush bad image with upgraded public toilets
Municipalities are teaming up with corporations when carrying out renovations aimed at improving experience for tourists and families.
Nuclear energy exhibit to be turned into clinic for doctor-hungry Yamaguchi town
In an unusual move, a nuclear power exhibition facility in a small town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which has been seeing a steady decline in the number of visitors in recent years, will reopen as a medical clinic when a new doctor starts work there ...
Avatar robot allows Hiroshima students to attend classes from hospital beds
The education board in Hiroshima Prefecture has pioneered the use of a pint-sized "surrogate robot" to realize what was previously considered impossible: allowing hospitalized students to take classes remotely without being monitored by teachers. The success of the board's tech-savvy initiative, considered an educational first ...
