To become prime minister, Liberal Democratic Party head Sanae Takaichi struck a deal with the Japan Innovation Party that includes the goal of cutting Lower House seats by 10%, which would mostly affect smaller parties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/japan/politics/election-bill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #komeito #nipponishinnokai #sanaetakaichi #hirofumiyoshimura #fumitakefujita #tetsuosaito #hiroshima #osaka
A concert held in Hiroshima featured for the first time the digitized sounds of a piano that survived the U.S. atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/piano-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #music #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #digitalization
Teachers in Japan are paying out of their own pocket to prepare teaching materials and other supplies that are supposed to be covered by the schools’ budgets, according to a nationwide survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/japan/school-teacher-payment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #schools #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #hiroshima #education #teachers
2024 Nobel Peace Price recipients Nihon Hidankyo held an event with other participants in Tokyo to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/12/japan/politics/nihon-hidankyo-event-to-mark-80-year-atomic-bombings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nihonhidankyo #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #nobelpeaceprize
A year after Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize, one high school student remains determined to pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/12/japan/japan-high-school-student-nuke-abolition-call/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #nihonhidankyo #nobelpeaceprize
joene 🏴🍉
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Israel has dropped 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since October 7 until today —
the equivalent of 13 Hiroshima nuclear bombs on an area of only 356 square kilometers.
This figure exceeds the total amount of explosives the United States used in its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined over 28 years.
#Gaza #palestine #genocide #turkey #israel #trump #Hiroshima
Israel has dropped 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since October 7 until today —
the equivalent of 13 Hiroshima nuclear bombs on an area of only 356 square kilometers.
This figure exceeds the total amount of explosives the United States used in its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined over 28 years.
#Gaza #palestine #genocide #turkey #israel #trump #Hiroshima
Victims of atomic bombings and nuclear tests gathered in Hiroshima to discuss eliminating nuclear damage, 80 years after the atomic bombings of the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/japan/nuclear-victims-forum-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #hiroshima
Matt Noyes
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Through the help of Nina-Arica and other organizations , #Hiroshima will have their first ever #pride parade on October 11, 2025, with the parade taking place at 2pm. 🏳️🌈
With a large-scale pride parade happening outside of bigger cities like #Tokyo and #Osaka the #LGBTQ community in #Japan especially for those that may not have access to these bigger hubs.
For more details, read Avi Gokool’s latest article on the upcoming Pride Parade.
Through the help of Nina-Arica and other organizations , #Hiroshima will have their first ever #pride parade on October 11, 2025, with the parade taking place at 2pm. 🏳️🌈
With a large-scale pride parade happening outside of bigger cities like #Tokyo and #Osaka the #LGBTQ community in #Japan especially for those that may not have access to these bigger hubs.
For more details, read Avi Gokool’s latest article on the upcoming Pride Parade.
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