Just a month after Hiroshima was devastated by the U.S. atomic bomb, Typhoon Ida killed 3,756 people in Japan including atomic bomb survivors and specialist medics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/hiroshima-a-bomb-typhoon-tradegies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #typhoons
Eighty years after the end of the Pacific War, the stories of Higashihiroshima's sake breweries reveal how a local craft was buffeted by wartime economic controls and offer reflections on the meaning of peace today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/japan/japan-wwii-economic-controls-hiroshima-sake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #higashihiroshima #wwii #sake #alcohol
De la bombe atomique à la lutte antinucléaire, la bifurcation de Józef Rotblat
Juif polonais parti de Varsovie juste avant que n’éclate la Seconde Guerre mondiale, membre de l’équipe scientifique à l’origine de la bombe atomique, Józef Rotblat change de bord avant l’explosion d’#Hiroshima.
Par @AmeliePoinssot › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/250825/de-la-bombe-atomique-la-lutte-antinucleaire-la-bifurcation-de-jozef-rotblat?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
Producer and actor Mayu Iwasaki is passionate about bringing Japanese stories to the English-language stage that go beyond stereotypes of geisha and ninja-like characters. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/22/stage/hisashi-inoue-play-english/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #nihonhidankyo #theater #omusubiproductions #hisashiinoue #rogerpulvers #mayuiwasaki #hiroshima
Teruko Yahata, 88, began studying English five years ago so she could share the horrors of the bombing of Hiroshima with a wider audience. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/hibakusha-giving-account-in-english/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nuclearweapons
Izumi Nakamitsu, U.N. undersecretary-general and high representative for disarmament affairs, urged Japan to attend the 2026 review conference for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/japan/nakamitsu-disarmament-efforts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #izuminakamitsu #un #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nagasaki #hiroshima
A woman who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima 80 years ago called for the abolition of nuclear weapons in a lecture in Sydney. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/17/japan/hiroshima-abomb-survivor-speech-sydney/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nuclearweapons
A Japanese woman and an American man whose grandfathers experienced the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have forged an unlikely collaboration to publish a book calling for a world free of nuclear weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/grandchildren-unite/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #hiroshima #us #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii
Many seeking to preserve memories of the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima are donating artifacts to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, with about 50 items contributed each year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/japan/hiroshima-museum-atomic-bombing-artifacts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #hiroshima #atomicbombings #museums
For atomic bomb survivor Koko Kondo, an unexpected meeting with the co-pilot of the Enola Gay bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 helped replace her anger with forgiveness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/japan/history/this-is-your-life-kondo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #hibakusha
Mayors from across the world concluded a general conference in Nagasaki on Sunday by adopting a declaration expressing their resolve to abolish nuclear weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/10/japan/global-mayors-adopt-nagasaki-peace-message/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #nuclearweapons
A Hiroshima Prefecture high school hit by a bullying scandal has withdrawn from the hugely popular National High School Baseball Championship after a social media frenzy, officials said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/10/baseball/hiroshima-school-bullying-summer-koshien/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #hiroshima#koshien #koryohighschool #bullying
Terumi Tanaka, a 93-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, has called on younger generations to create a movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons that "inspires others." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/10/japan/nagasaki-a-bomb-hibakusha-movement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbomings #nagasaki #hiroshima #wwii #nuclearweapons #terumitanaka #hibakusha
This nonprofit is fighting to preserve ‘survivor’ trees from Hiroshima’s atomic bombing — and share their seeds with the world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/08/09/issues/green-legacy-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-trees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #hiroshima #hibakusha #nagasaki #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii #unitednations
On Aug. 9, 1945, 17-year-old Koichi Tagawa survived the Nagasaki bombing and began a diary. His words captured the fire, the loss and the moment he became an orphan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/history/nagasaki-nuclear-bomb-diary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #nuclearweapons
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80 years ago, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in an era of nuclear terror. Today with a genocide underway in Gaza, war in Ukraine and rising nuclear threats, we must reaffirm, together, a firm commitment to disarmament and peace.
80 years ago, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in an era of nuclear terror. Today with a genocide underway in Gaza, war in Ukraine and rising nuclear threats, we must reaffirm, together, a firm commitment to disarmament and peace.
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