by Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writer On March 16, the total number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Hiroshima’s Naka Ward) surpassed 80 million. This figure was reached in the 70th ye...

Hiroshima Jogakuin University gives honorary doctorate to Ogura for giving A-bomb account in English

by Kanon Egashira, Staff Writer On March 15, Keiko Ogura, 87, an A-bomb survi...

94-year-old A-bomb survivor Nakagawa makes 3,000 paper cranes for peace in past three years, gives them to visitors to Hiroshima

by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer Mineko Nakagawa, 94, an A-bomb survivor liv...

Documenting Hiroshima, Witnesses to horrors of atomic bombing: Masayoshi Yokomaru, resident of Kawauchi, Asaminami Ward, “Pika Village,” mother, children lead difficult lives after war

by Michiko Tanaka, Senior Staff Writer On the early afternoon of the 6th of...

National Peace Memorial Hall attracts record high 434,215 visitors in fiscal 2024 against backdrop of unstable world situation

by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer The Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for ...

Replicas of Nobel Peace Prize medal, certificate to be displayed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima City’s plan

by Koji Higuchi, Staff Writer Replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and cer...

Suffered from diarrhea in his childhood, and always said “I feel tired” by Ikumi Yorikane, Staff Writer There is a period that atomic bomb survivors call the “decade of void,” from immediately a...

Documenting Hiroshima 80 years after A-bombing: From August 6, 1945, to 2025 — First Peace Festival, August 1947

“I read out the peace declaration, hoping that even if the voice delivered from ...

Hiroshima and Film, Part 6: Kazuki Iwamoto―Director of Fukuyama Ekimae Cinema Mode

“Kazoku” (‘Where Spring comes Late’; released in 1970) Director: Yoji Yamada ...

Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 7: Efforts toward elimination of nuclear weapons driving force behind adoption of TPNW

Survivors undefeated by severe international situation by Fumiyasu Miyano and...

Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 6: For survivors’ movement elsewhere, “If I were found out to be hibakusha, life would be impossible”

Finding hidden A-bomb survivors, providing support by Michiko Tanaka, Senior ...

Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 5: A-bomb survivors make appeals internationally, striking chord with people in the West

Sight of survivors confronting hardship moved hearts by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staf...

Nihon Hidankyo’s path to Nobel Peace Prize, Part 4: Sit-ins－Ichiro Moritaki’s belief in protesting nuclear tests

Terrible sight of devastation was origin of his 470 sit-ins by Michio Shimota...

Interview with Kenichi Okubo, President, Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms by Makoto Iwasaki, Special Editorial Writer The “A-bomb trial,” in which the atomic bombings of Hiroshi...

Tetsuji Kumada, 67, newly appointed to post of secretary-general of Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations

by Minami Yamashita, Staff Writer On July 3, Tetsuji Kumada, 67, assumed th...

Did you know? Basic information about A-bombed Hiroshima—Radioactive dust, soot

by Hiromi Morita, Staff Writer Q: Why was the rain that fell shortly afte...