Do city assembly members need two tablets each? Concerns grow in Hiroshima over tax waste
This fiscal year, the Higashihiroshima Municipal Assembly handed out second tablets to all of its 30 members, at a cost of about ¥6 million. All members already had one tablet, but the move came after council members complained it was hard to see multiple documents ...
India-Pakistan nuclear war could trigger global cooling and kill worldwide for a decade: researchers
The year is 2025 and militants have attacked India's parliament, killing most of its leaders. New Delhi retaliates by sending tanks into the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan. Fearing it will be overrun, Islamabad hits the invading forces with its battlefield nuclear weapons, triggering ...
Pope to stress anti-nuclear weapons message and meet with 3/11 survivors on trip to Japan
The trip from Nov. 23 to 26 will mark the first visit to the country by a pontiff in 38 years.
Hiroshima A-bomb survivor's daughter seeks nuclear ban treaty as five more nations ratify
The daughter of a Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor on Thursday pushed for a treaty banning nuclear weapons, which five countries ratified, at an event marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. At the signing and ratification ceremony, Mitchie Takeuchi, 63, emphasized the ...
Artist shines a spotlight on all-female theater group in postwar Hiroshima Prefecture
During the post-World War II recovery period the city of Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, was home to an all-women's theater group. Established in 1946, the theater group, based in the city's Yoshiwa district, was named Hoshigekidan. It performed plays on stage at theaters and became recognized ...
Pope Francis to visit Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Nov. 23 to 26
Pope Francis will visit Japan from Nov. 23 to 26, the Vatican said Friday, becoming the first pontiff in nearly four decades to travel to the country. The pope is scheduled to visit the atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with Tokyo. He will ...
American pacifist's little-known legacy lives on in A-bombed cities
Mitsuo Baba is still grateful to an American who dedicated himself to building homes for A-bomb survivors in Nagasaki, one of two cities destroyed by the terrifying weapons in World War II. "I met Schmoe-san only a couple of times as a kid and almost ...
Urgent appeal to save nuclear agreements
The rapid deterioration of nuclear arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation pacts adds to the rising risk of the use of nuclear weapons.
Hiroshima marked the fifth anniversary on Tuesday of landslides that claimed 77 lives, with residents in the affected areas holding a memorial service to mourn the victims. The memorial was attended by the bereaved families, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and others. Flowers were left at various ...
As rains lead to thousands of school meals being binned, Hiroshima weighs how to cut waste
A 30-year-old female reader in Hiroshima contacted the Chugoku Shimbun one day to convey her frustration that school lunches are thrown away when schools shut down due to heavy rain. "I heard that whenever elementary and junior high schools are canceled after a heavy rain ...
As their cities marked the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week used their annual peace declarations to heap pressure on the central government to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons. Their words reflected the frustrations ...
Forty years on, Hiroshima hibakusha, 82, still telling her story — in English
An 82-year-old hibakusha has been describing her wartime experiences in English for some 40 years to foreign visitors at Peace Memorial Park, near the hypocenter of the Hiroshima A-bomb. But Keiko Ogura is also passionate about nurturing young people, because they will be the ones ...
