Voices | COMMUNITY CHEST Jun 9, 2017
In case you missed them: a year of responses to Community stories, part 2
The second in a series of selections of unpublished letters about Community stories from the previous year.
Commentary | COUNTERPOINT Apr 8, 2017
The nuclear journey from Hiroshima to Pyongyang
by Jeff Kingston
The moral revolution required to rid the world of nuclear arms seems further away than ever with Japan's abnegation of its unique position regarding such weapons.
National Feb 27, 2017
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum breaks annual attendance record thanks to Obama visit
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum drew nearly 1.6 million visitors in fiscal 2016 as surging attendance set a record following U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit in May 2016. On Friday, attendance eclipsed the previous record of 1,593,280 set in fiscal 1999 and is likely ...
National Dec 29, 2016
The Japan Times newsroom selected these national news stories as the most important of 2016. 1. A president in Hiroshima: U.S. President Barack Obama made a historic and emotional visit to Hiroshima on May 27. He was the first sitting U.S. president to go to ...
National Aug 25, 2016
Hiroshima to extend exhibit of Obama's origami cranes, loan one to Nagasaki
The display of paper cranes that were made by U.S. President Barack Obama at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum will be extended for about five months, while one of the cranes will be loaned to Nagasaki, another atomic bombed city, the Hiroshima municipal office ...
National / Politics Jun 30, 2016
Obama's Hiroshima visit reflects strong U.S.-Japan ties: report
A recently released U.S. congressional report embraced President Barack Obama's recent visit to Hiroshima as a manifestation of a robust relationship between the United States and Japan. The report, by the Congressional Research Service, Congress' nonpartisan research arm, also focused on the upcoming Upper House ...
National Jun 30, 2016
The Hiroshima city government will loan some of the paper cranes gifted by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a municipal official said Thursday. Obama folded four cranes, giving them to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and to elementary and junior ...
National Jun 9, 2016
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Thursday put on display four paper cranes offered by U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic visit to the atomic-bombed city in May. According to the museum, each of the Obama-handmade cranes is about 7 cm high and about ...
National Jun 7, 2016
Hiroshima survivor meets Obama aide and urges end to nuclear weapons
An 84-year-old atomic bomb survivor called on U.S. President Barack Obama to make further efforts to abolish nuclear weapons in a letter she handed to a close aide of the president during a meeting Monday in Washington. "I wrote, 'We must act for the future ...
National / Politics Jun 2, 2016
Obama reworked Hiroshima speech many times in bid to find right balance
by Tomoko Otake
U.S. president's top speechwriter says Obama worked hard to make sure it was "a broad reflection on what we must learn from history."
National Jun 2, 2016
Manga shows Hiroshima survival as one of joy
by May Masangkay
The horror in post-bombing Hiroshima is captured in black-and-white photos of the city and its beleaguered survivors. But Taeko Tada, whose mother survived the U.S. atomic bombing at the age of 5, has a different take on the tragedy. Her self-published manga focuses on the ...
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET Jun 1, 2016
Views from Hiroshima: What did you make of President Obama's visit?
by John Ashburne
People in Hiroshima offer their views on last week's historic trip by U.S. President Barack Obama.