Business | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Apr 26, 2021
Visitors to Chugoku's 109 courses topped 370,000 in March, an eight-year high for that month
National | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Apr 5, 2021
At the heart of his unusual connection with Japan is one local medical practitioner whom he feels forever indebted to.
Business | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Feb 19, 2021
Small hotels diversify to stay afloat as pandemic crushes tourism
The Go To Travel subsidy campaign run by the government, hailed by some as helping revive the tourism industry, didn’t do much to benefit some cheaply priced inns.
National / Crime & Legal | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Nov 27, 2020
Shoplifting becomes unforeseen side effect of ban on free plastic bags
More and more customers are now taking advantage of their own personal, reusable bags to conceal unpaid items, making theft harder to spot.
National | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Oct 23, 2020
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.
National | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Sep 25, 2020
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.
National / Social Issues | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Aug 21, 2020
Foreign trainees in Hiroshima face illegal hours and unpaid overtime
Fewer Japanese people want to work in sewing jobs, one industry insider said.
National / History Aug 9, 2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki struggle to preserve A-bombed relics 75 years later
by Kyoko Niiyama and Tetsuyuki Hanayama
The cities face a continuous dilemma over how to maintain ruins and how to find the money with which to do it.
National / History | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Aug 7, 2020
Japan institute struggling to preserve A-bomb autopsy materials
by Yuji Yamamoto and Kyosuke Mizukawa
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.
National / History Jul 31, 2020
Time fails to dim Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Peace Declarations
by Kyoko Niiyama and Eiko Tokumashi
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely have some effect on this year's ceremonies marking the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
National | Regional Voices: Yamaguchi Jul 24, 2020
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.
National | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Jun 19, 2020
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.