National / Social Issues | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Aug 2, 2021
Unmarried couples face legal restrictions such as an inability to inherit property when a partner dies.
National / Crime & Legal | Regional Voices: Hiroshima Jul 5, 2021
Accident that paralyzed woman in Hiroshima highlights high bar for 'dangerous driving'
Dangerous driving resulting in death or injury became a criminal offense in 2001 in response to a series of tragic traffic accidents.
National | Regional Voices: Hiroshima May 31, 2021
Japan citizens' groups take on 'period poverty' as municipalities shy away
A survey in the Chugoku region has found an alarming lack of support from local municipalities for handing out sanitary products.
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.