Leaders of Shimane, Hiroshima, Kochi and Ehime call for efforts to ensure residents’ safety following Pyongyang’s threat to launch missiles over Japan to waters near Guam.
Mayors for Peace, an organization of cities around the world seeking nuclear abolition, agreed Thursday to launch an appeal to the United Nations and all national governments to work for a world free of nuclear weapons. The "Nagasaki Appeal" calls for governments to sign and ...
As Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings, aging survivors deplored what they called the hypocrisy by the Japanese government following its decision to stay out of a treaty banning nuclear arms. Despite anger and calls from the survivors urging ...
Hiroshima on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of its atomic bombing by the U.S., with Mayor Kazumi Matsui using the annual memorial ceremony to call on the central government to help make a treaty banning nuclear weapons a reality. This year's ceremony at Peace Memorial ...
The gist of Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui's Peace Declaration on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing: The "hell" seen in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing could occur again at any time as long as nuclear weapons continue to exist. Nuclear weapons are useless for national ...
Hiroshima's appeal of "never again" on Sunday's anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack has gained urgency as North Korea moves ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons, showing its growing prowess with increasingly frequent missile launches. When the U.S. dropped the bomb on Aug. ...
A paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who died of leukemia a decade after the attack, was donated Saturday to a former training site for U.S. bombing crews during World War II. Yuji Sasaki, 47, Sadako's ...
Every photo has a story to tell, and the eldest son of Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is hoping that the photographs taken by his father will give people a fuller view of his life. An exhibition starting in Tokyo next Wednesday will showcase ...
The early morning light on this summer day, illuminating the under canopies of trees and sending warm, golden strobes across the oyster cafes over the embankments of the Kyobashi River, is enchanting. A fan-shaped city divided by seven deltaic waterways, Hiroshima sits on six islands ...
Sixty years on, letters that formed the basis of Austrian writer Jungk's acclaimed account of life after the A-bomb are set to be published.
The operator of a Korean senior high school in the city of Hiroshima appealed to a higher court Tuesday a ruling dismissing its claim for the publicly funded tuition support that covers most of the nation's high schools. The appeal comes just days after a ...
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will call on the government to help realize a treaty banning nuclear weapons at upcoming anniversaries marking the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings in their cities. This year's declarations follow the adoption in New York last month by 122 U.N. ...
