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HIROSHIMA

COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 28, 2020
Anne Frank and Sadako Sasaki: Two girls that symbolize the horrors of war
The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II came amid a pandemic. We take a moment to look back to remember two people in particular who died in that global crisis.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 18, 2020
Carp's Ryosuke Kikuchi captures eighth straight Golden Glove
Kikuchi's award capped off a historic season in which the second baseman did not commit a single error for the Central League side.
JAPAN / Politics / EXPLAINER
Dec 15, 2020
Heavyweight Nikai and his scandal-plagued LDP faction ruffling feathers
Allegations of bribery against two former farm ministers now threaten to weaken the Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction and its powerful leader.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Nov 27, 2020
Shoplifting becomes unforeseen side effect of ban on free plastic bags
More and more customers are now taking advantage of their own personal, reusable bags to conceal unpaid items, making theft harder to spot.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2020
Mobilizing the world behind the nuclear weapons ban treaty
Setsuko Thurlow is an atomic bombing survivor who lives in Canada. She has been a highly visible public face of the hibakusha around the world, campaigning tirelessly for nuclear abolition and was included in the small delegation from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to receive...

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.