On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrentThe mayor of Hiroshima has led calls for the world’s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, …
Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast – known as hibakusha – have fallen below 100,000The fires were still burning, and the dead lay where they had fallen, when a 10-year-old Yoshiko Niiyama entered Hiroshi…
Film about ‘father of the atomic bomb’ finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memesIt is hard to think of a more emotionally charged venue than Hatchoza for the first screening in Japan of the Academy Award-winning film…
Joint visit during G7 summit seen as further evidence of determination to overcome longstanding frictionJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, have paid their respects at a memorial to the tens of thousand…
At a ceremony opening the G7 summit in Japan, leaders laid wreaths and visited the museum commemorating the 1945 attackG7 leaders prepare new sanctions against RussiaG7 leaders have laid flowers at a memorial to the victims of the US atomic bombing of …
As the city prepares for global leaders to arrive for the summit, restaurants are gearing up for a surge in visitors and orders of Hiroshima’s favourite dishHiroshima survivors urge G7 leaders to unite against atomic weaponsLeaked menus for G7 working …
Almost eight decades after the bomb, G7 leaders will meet in the Japanese city where survivors are urging action on disarmament amid the Ukraine warA blow to the head probably saved Park Namjoo’s life. The 13-year-old schoolgirl, like many other childr…
Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North KoreaToshiyuki Mimaki was playing in front of his family home in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945 when he saw a flash in the sky – the moment the …