One year after receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Nihon Hidankyo is seeking ways to continue its activities amid the aging of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/aging-nihon-hidankyo-members/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #nobelprize

One year after receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Nihon Hidankyo is seeking ways to continue its activities amid the aging of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/aging-nihon-hidankyo-members/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #nobelprize

2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - THE VOW FROM #HIROSHIMA

USA, 2021, Director & Producer Susan Strickler, Writer & Producer Mitchie Takeuchi, Documentary, English, 82 min.

"The Vow From Hiroshima is an intimate portrait of #SetsukoThurlow, a passionate survivor of the #AtomicBomb in Hiroshima. She was 13 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Her moving story is told through the lens of her growing friendship with a second-generation survivor, #MitchieTakeuchi. Setsuko was miraculously pulled out of a fiery building after the bomb was dropped and unable to save her other 27 classmates who were burned to death alive. That experience shaped her life forever and she endeavored to keep a pledge she made to her friends - that no one should ever again experience the same horrible fate. The film follows Setsuko through her decades of activism up to the current moment when she finally achieves her dream of a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty."

FMI - https://www.thevowfromhiroshima.com/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #Nagasaki #NuclearWeaponsBan #VowFromHiroshima #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - THE VOW FROM #HIROSHIMA

USA, 2021, Director & Producer Susan Strickler, Writer & Producer Mitchie Takeuchi, Documentary, English, 82 min.

"The Vow From Hiroshima is an intimate portrait of #SetsukoThurlow, a passionate survivor of the #AtomicBomb in Hiroshima. She was 13 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Her moving story is told through the lens of her growing friendship with a second-generation survivor, #MitchieTakeuchi. Setsuko was miraculously pulled out of a fiery building after the bomb was dropped and unable to save her other 27 classmates who were burned to death alive. That experience shaped her life forever and she endeavored to keep a pledge she made to her friends - that no one should ever again experience the same horrible fate. The film follows Setsuko through her decades of activism up to the current moment when she finally achieves her dream of a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty."

FMI - https://www.thevowfromhiroshima.com/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #Nagasaki #NuclearWeaponsBan #VowFromHiroshima #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

Nagasaki’s mayor on Thursday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to restart nuclear tests, calling it “absolutely unacceptable.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/japan/nagasaki-mayor-trump-nuclearg/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #shirosuzuki #donaldtrump #us #usjapanrelations #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nobelprize

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

As he opened the 40th National Cultural Festival and the 25th National Arts and Culture Festival for Persons with Disabilities, Emperor Naruhito expressed hopes the events will spark the creation of new culture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/15/japan/imperial-couple-attend-national-cultural-festivals-in-nagasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #imperialcouple #nagasaki #wwii #atomicbombings

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, have begun a trip to Nagasaki Prefecture, mainly to mourn victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city of Nagasaki in World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/imperial-family-nagasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan#emperornaruhito #empressmasako#imperialfamily #nagasaki #wwii #atomicbombings #us

An independent expert panel of the U.N. tasked with assessing the impact of nuclear war met with co-deputy chair Masao Tomonaga, an 82-year-old hibakusha atomic bomb survivor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/07/japan/politics/un-nuke-panel-hibakusha-deputy-chiar/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #un #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nagasaki

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 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

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

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

Nagasaki marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on Saturday, amid frustration among the dwindling number of survivors that their powerful calls for eradicating nuclear arms are falling on deaf ears. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/09/japan/nagasaki-80th-anniversary-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #atomicbombings #wwii #history #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

Mayors for Peace, a worldwide organization of city leaders, started a three-day general conference in Nagasaki on Friday, the day before the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/mayors-nagasaki-conference/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #un

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