Empress Masako turned 62 on Tuesday with reinforced hopes for lasting peace as she reflected on her visits this year to places associated with World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/09/japan/empress-masako-birthday/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #empressmasako #imperialfamily #mongolia #wwii #atomicbombings #2025osakaexpo #earthquakes #health
In August, for the first time, over half of participants at the Japan's national memorial service for those who died in World War II were born after it ended, highlighting the urgent need to hand down wartime memories. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/society/war-memories-legacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #wwii #internalaffairsministry #atomicbombings #aging #mhlw
A set of unclaimed remains placed in the vault under the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima will undergo DNA profiling to identify the individual. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/18/japan/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-dna-testing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #hiroshima #genetics #wwii
While support for Japan's nuclear-weapons abolitionist groups is increasing, the average age of hibakusha has exceeded 86. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/japan/nihon-hidankyo-nobel-peace-prize-one-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #nobelpeaceprize #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #nuclearweapons
Scientists and scholars from around the globe gathered in Hiroshima and demanded, in a joint declaration Wednesday, that nuclear powers never use the weapons of mass destruction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/japan/scientists-abolition-nuclear-weapons/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings
During the five-day conference in the city, scientists and other experts will discuss on topics such as nuclear disarmament and Middle East security. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/02/japan/pugwash-nuclear-abolition-conference-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons
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
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
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
The ruling and opposition parties have decided to set up a suprapartisan group for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the request of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/japan/suprapartisan-group-nuclear-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #ldp #cdp
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
His memories are hazy, but for 95-year-old Hidetada Yoshida, the decadeslong pain in his right arm serves as a reminder of his experience mining for ores including uranium during the closing days of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/japan/95-year-old-speaks-of-wartime-uranium-mining-fukushima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #fukushima #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #mining
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
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
Japanese high school students advocating for the abolition of nuclear weapons presented 110,000 signatures for world peace to the United Nations during a trip to Geneva on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/students-signatures-peace-un/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #un#highschools #nuclearweapons #wwii #atomicbombings
The unpredictability of U.S. President Donald Trump and doubts about whether America can be relied on to provide security have led some in Japan to consider an unthinkable Plan B: nuclear arms. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/trump-japan-nuclear-arms/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #us #usjapanrelations #ruimatsukawa #defense #donaldtrump #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii
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