Second-generation Japanese American Jack Dairiki shares his wish for peace, recalls hardships of war in online meeting Experienced atomic bombing while staying in Hiroshima

Hiroshima group initiates online signature drive to oppose IOC President Bach’s visit to city

Prior to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach’s planned v...

54,000 online signatures in opposition to Bach’s visit to Hiroshima submitted to Hiroshima Prefecture

by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer On July 14, a group of volunteer citizens ...

Hiroshima Governor and Mayor to welcome Thomas Bach with Peace Park off-limits to the public

by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer International Olympic Committee (IOC) Pres...

Hiroshima mayor signals intent to preserve one portion of A-bombed remnants unearthed at planned site of new soccer stadium

by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer On July 13, Hiroshima City Mayor Kazumi Matsui...

With confusion, welcome for IOC president’s Hiroshima visit, survivors and local officials express doubts about Games, call for nuclear-abolition message

When it was determined on July 13 that International Olympic Committee (IOC) Pre...

IOC President Thomas Bach to visit Hiroshima July 16, offer flowers at Cenotaph, and tour Peace Memorial Museum

by Gosuke Nagahisa, Staff Writer On July 13, the Hiroshima Prefecture and H...

Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima—Recreating cityscapes: Nostalgic scenes of former Kajiya-cho, opposite A-bomb Dome, juxtaposed with A-bomb tragedy

Jun. 21, 2021 Features

Okiharu Terao holds on to his father’s old photos in Miyoshi by Rina Yuasa, Staff Writer Okiharu Terao, 81, a resident of Miyoshi City in Hiroshima Prefecture, has carefully kept photographs...

Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima 75 years after the atomic bombing—Recreating cityscapes

Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima 75 years after the atomic bombing—Recreating...

Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima

Striving to fill voids in Hiroshima, Part 1: Names fall into oblivion Strivin...

75% of Japan’s public backs TPNW, in poll by U.S. researchers, revealing divide with resistant Japanese government

Mar. 22, 2021 Opinion

by Miho Kuwajima, Staff Writer Stephen Herzog, 34, a research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University and other researchers have conducted a survey of public opinion ...

Editorial: 25 years passes since ICJ’s advisory opinion about legality of nuclear weapons. It is now clear nuclear arms violate international law.

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (...

Column: Matashichi Oishi passes from the scene

In a series of paintings titled “The Hiroshima Panels,” created by the couple Ir...

Ruling and opposition Diet members debate Japan’s participation in meetings of States Parties to TPNW as observer, calling for proactive consideration

by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer On February 12, in response to the entry ...

Editorial: TPNW and Japan—Nation should play a leading role, not simply as mediator, to realize world free from nuclear weapons　

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force yesterda...

Prime Minister Suga does not mention topic of TPNW when describing meeting with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden

by Seiji Shitakubo, Staff Writer At a news conference held on January 7, ...