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HIBAKUSHA

Japan Times
JAPAN
May 10, 2014
Citizens need hibakusha 'minds'
The world must grasp the human toll of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to end nuclear proliferation, the chairman of a U.N. nuclear conference says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2013
Kennedy says Nagasaki visit 'deeply moving'
U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday visited Nagasaki for the first time since taking up her post last month.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2013
Foreign A-bomb survivors ask Abe to correct Hiroshima remarks
Six groups representing non-Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings are pressing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to correct his remarks that the Japanese are the "only people" to have experienced nuclear devastation in war.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2013
'No more hibakusha' takes on new meaning after 3/11
A Japanese scholar writes of his outrage in 2011 over the realization that the Fukushima nuclear plant accidents would produce a new generation of hibakusha.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2013
Hiroshima mayor skeptical of Abe atomic arms vow
At the ceremony Tuesday marking the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to do whatever he can to achieve a world without nuclear arms and to offer better support to atomic-bomb survivors fighting radiation-caused health problems.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 1, 2013
A-bomb survivors take message to N.Y. school
A Japanese-born Korean and a "Hiroshima Maiden" who both lived through the Aug. 6 atomic bombing of their city in the closing days of World War II recalled their experiences as guest speakers at a Brooklyn school on Monday and promoted their messages of peace.
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008
The true meaning of patriotism
I was appalled by the simplistic and utterly condemnable view of patriotism expressed in the April 6 letter from Wilson Hartz. His glib remarks display a remarkable lack of appreciation for the complexity of the long and agonizing controversy in this country over national symbols. Hartz would have the Japanese revive the same sort of pernicious nationalism that Douglas MacArthur hated and sought to stamp out.

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Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores