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Hiroshima aims to boost test scores with free breakfasts at elementary schools
The Hiroshima Prefectural Government launched Wednesday what it called the country's first local government-led initiative to provide free breakfast to elementary school students, officials said. The prefecture hopes to expand the program to other elementary schools wishing to sign up, citing findings that students who ...
Red Sox pitcher Hector Velazquez issues apology for inappropriate video about Hiroshima
Boston Red Sox pitcher Hector Velazquez apologized Tuesday over video footage posted on his Instagram account that showed images of a building that has become symbolic of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima along with a graphic of a bomb and subtitles that read ...
Caroline Kennedy was in top form when she returned to Japan recently for a two-week visit. Following her arrival here on Oct. 25, the former ambassador's itinerary was nonstop. Highlights included her biking across the Seto Inland Sea in a race, Cycling Shimanami 2018, as ...
Words of regret run repeatedly through the mind of Yoshinori Kato: "I'm sorry I couldn't save you." On Aug. 6, 1945, when the city of Hiroshima was hit by a U.S. atomic bomb, Kato, now 90 but who was 17 at the time, said he ...
Cooperation and information sharing key in disaster response, speakers tell Hiroshima workshop
Given Japan's vulnerability to natural disasters, and with accelerating climate change widely predicted to increase severe weather patterns, increased cooperation and information sharing is more important than ever to meet the needs of victims. That was the message delivered Monday in Hiroshima during a workshop ...
Study finds 80% of rescue hashtags were unrelated to emergencies during July deluge
A vast majority of uses of the hashtag #kyūjo — which means rescue in Japanese — posted on Twitter during the deadly flooding last summer were unrelated to calls for help.
With Pope Francis expressing his intention to visit Japan next year, hopes are high among Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents and A-bomb survivors' groups that he may come to their cities. The Vatican has already ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and the ...
Disaster victims call on Japan's new Cabinet for prompt reconstruction measures
Victims of the recent Hokkaido earthquake and torrential rains in western Japan, as well as the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, have called on the new Cabinet launched Tuesday to accelerate recovery efforts and for the ministers in charge to visit the affected sites. "I hope ...
Carp rout Swallows to clinch third straight Central League pennant
Aren Kuri threw eight scoreless innings to help the Hiroshima Carp to clinch their third straight Central League pennant in grand fashion with a 10-0 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday. For two straight days, the Carp had needed one win or one ...
Six injured as motorboat slams into quay on island in Hiroshima
Six people were injured, three seriously, when their motorboat slammed into a quay Sunday morning on an island in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. The injured were two women aged 28 and 85, and the 62-year-old male skipper, the local Japan Coast Guard office said. A 3-year-old ...
Belongings of student who perished in A-bomb attack, donated to Hiroshima museum
Yoko Moriwaki, who was 13 at the time of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, is known for the diary she kept until the day before the bombing. The diary is now a symbol of the weapon's cruelty. Her brother, Koji Hosokawa, 90, an ...
Want a piping hot pizza any time you feel like one? So did truck driver Yoshiharu Taniguchi, who craved freshly made Italian pies when he worked long nights. His solution: hunt for a pizza vending machine. He tracked down an Italian company that manufactured them, ...
