The controversial Yasukuni Shrine may draw headlines, but Tokyo’s diverse array of museums and memorials share countless perspectives on WWII’s causes and consequences. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/08/travel/tokyo-ww2-museums-yasukuni-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #wwii #wardead #warcrimes #museums

The atomic bombings were a tragic but nearly unavoidable result of Japan’s refusal to surrender, the momentum of wartime technology, and the brutal logic of ending a devastating war quickly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/07/japan/we-must-commemorate-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #wwii #us #harrytruman

People in Fukushima Prefecture and other parts of Japan are working to pass down the stories of "mock atomic bombs" the United States dropped in the country during World War II, which resulted in over 400 deaths. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/wwii-us-mock-atomic-bombings-on-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #fukushima #wwii

Not saints, not martyrs — teenage nurses struggle to care for others while barely holding themselves together in “Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/07/film/nagasaki-in-the-shadow-of-the-flash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #wwii #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #jumpeimatsumoto

In World War II, Kyoto was spared as a target of the atomic bomb. But the ancient capital was bombed several times by conventional means and carries the marks of those attacks through the present day. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/07/travel/kyoto-wwii-aerial-bombing-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #wwii #kyoto #atomicbombings

Declassified official U.S. documents showed Tuesday that the U.S. military estimated two days after its Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima that at least 100,000 people died as a result of the bombing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/06/japan/hiroshima-bombing-victims-us-initial-estimate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nuclearweapons

“The whole city was gone. We knew it was a bomb, but we didn't know what kind of bomb,” Howard Kakita, a Japanese American hibakusha, recalls immediately after Hiroshima was bombed in 1945. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/06/japan/history/japanese-american-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #atomicbombings #hiroshima #howardkakita #us

Japan observed the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with silent prayers for the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives and for those who suffered in the decades after. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/06/japan/hiroshima-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #us

In Hiroshima, where an atomic bomb was dropped 80 years ago, its message of peace lives on in the form of products such as notepads made via the recycling of millions of paper cranes offered at a memorial in the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/06/japan/society/hiroshima-paper-crane/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #us

Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, an 83-year-old orphaned survivor continues to speak out about the destructive nature of nuclear weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/06/japan/orphaned-hibakusha-shares-his-experiences/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #nuclearweapons #hiroshima #atomicbombings

I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with my 10-year-old son where we met a little girl with a big heart who taught us the meaning of compassion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/05/japan/hiroshima-nuclear-bombing-empathy-party/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #wwii

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed willingness to deliver a message to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, having decided not to release a Cabinet-approved official statement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/politics/ishiba-open-anniversary-message/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shigeruishiba #ldp #wwii

A Japanese nonprofit organization is accelerating efforts to digitize valuable materials related to the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/digitalizing-atomic-bombings-materials/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #digitalization

A Thai man who built a memorial to Japanese soldiers killed by members of a Thai resistance group during World War II hopes that their remains will be returned to their home country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/03/japan/thai-want-to-return-japanese-soldiers-remains/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #thailand #imperialarmy #wwii

A three-generation family in the central city of Toyama is working to pass on to future generations the memory of a massive air raid that occurred 80 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/03/japan/3-generations-memory-toyama-air-raid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii

In a break with recent tradition, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided not to make a personal statement on the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/03/japan/politics/ishiba-wwii-personal-statement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shigeruishiba #history #wwii #ldp

An "unknown assailant" attacked and wounded a Japanese national accompanied by a child in the Chinese city of Suzhou, Tokyo's Embassy said Friday, calling on Beijing to prevent such incidents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/02/japan/crime-legal/china-japan-national-attacked-suzhou/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #china #chinajapanrelations #wwii #history

The mayor of Nagasaki is set to urge world leaders to work toward abolishing nuclear weapons in a speech on Aug. 9 at a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/nagasaki-mayor-nuclear-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #us #wwii #hibakusha

A large number of Japanese World War II relics have found their way to online auction sites, raising concerns among those trying to preserve such items, with Japan set to mark 80 years since the end of the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/war-relics-auctioned-online/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #internet #ecommerce