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 ...
The government should show what concrete actions it plans to take to realize "a world free of nuclear weapons."
A piano tuner from Hiroshima is spreading a message of peace with a collection of pianos that survived the bombing in August 1945. Mitsunori Yagawa, 67, fixes the pianos after receiving them from donors and takes them around the country. Born to a hibakusha family, Yagawa ...
On A-bomb anniversary, Hiroshima mayor calls on Japan to join nuclear ban treaty
Hiroshima marked the 74th anniversary of its atomic bombing by the United States on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of people attending a ceremony at ground zero. In a speech, Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged the government to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons. But Prime ...
A Japan-U.S. joint research organization opened one of its radiation research facilities in Hiroshima to the public Monday to raise awareness of the effects of radiation on human health, ahead of the anniversary on Tuesday of the atomic bombing of the city. Although the Hiroshima ...
Ohara Heights mudslide survivors still traumatized, relate their stories
As this month marks the first anniversary of torrential rain in western Japan, the Chugoku Shimbun has talked to several current and former residents of Ohara Heights, a residential area built in the 1970s that housed 315 residents in 113 households before the disaster. ...
Group helps Hiroshima mudslide victims return to normal life
It was three months after a dozen people were killed last July in mudslides triggered heavy rains in the town of Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, that five local residents formed a group aimed at reconstructing the area. The five didn't really know each other before the ...
Western Japan marks first anniversary of deadly mudslides and flooding that killed 275
Memorial services were held Saturday to mark the first anniversary of flooding and mudslides triggered by torrential rains in western Japan that claimed the lives of 275 people. The worst rain disaster in decades killed 137 people in Hiroshima Prefecture, 79 in Okayama Prefecture and ...
No injuries reported as Japan MSDF minesweeper and cargo ship collide off Hiroshima
A Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper and a cargo ship collided around midnight Wednesday in the Seto Inland Sea off the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, but no injuries were reported, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The 510-ton minesweeper Notojima carrying 41 people and the 699-ton ...
