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| Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama exhibits A-bomb coverage | '02/8/6 |
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The Chugoku Shimbun presents "The Atomic Bomb Exhibition through the Press: Hiroshima Continues to Speak to the Future". Opened on the 6th at the Japan Newspaper Museum (News Park), it displays news stories about the atomic bombing that have been appeared during the past half-century. Co-sponsored by the museum as a project to celebrate the Chugoku Shimbun's 110th anniversary, the exhibition will continue until September 8. Organized according to such themes as facts about the atomic bombing, relief for the survivors, and abolition of nuclear weapons, over 160 panels display news photos, news series, and much more. Also incorporating A-bomb artifacts, this exhibition presents an excellent overview of A-bomb news. Beginning at 1pm on the 10th, lectures will be given by, among others, Yoshito Matsushige, the Chugoku Shimbun photographer who photographed the tragedy immediately after it happened, and constitutional scholar Asaho Mizushima, professor at Waseda University.
This is the first exhibit held in this museum, which opened in October 2000, by the newspaper of an outlying city. During the exhibition, the entire morning and evening editions of the Chugoku Shimbun for August 6 and 7 will be sent digitally to the museum. A new system called the Newspaper Viewer will allow visitors to
"flip through" articles covering the 57th "A-bomb Day."
    
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