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

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

"Rather than being killed and swarmed by flies, let's throw ourselves into the sea," Mitsuko Arakaki recalls her grandmother saying at the height of the fighting on Tinian Island during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/society/tinian-death-escape/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #tinianisland #atomicbombings #us #wwii

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

Under the security alliance with the United States, Japan has served as a bulwark against an expansion of the Soviet communist bloc and China's hegemonic ambitions since the end of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/politics/bulwark-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sovietunion #us #china #usjapanrelations #atomicbombings #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

Michi Saito, 98, of Fukushima, recalls how her brother was killed by a dummy atomic bomb that U.S. forces used as training for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/fukushima-1945-mock-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #fukushima

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

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

On Aug. 9, 1945, Nagasaki was devastated by an atomic bomb. That makes a visit to Kokura, the original target, a sobering reminder of all that would have been destroyed — and all that was where the bombs landed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/09/lifestyle/kokura-walking-tour-atomic-bomb-nagasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons

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

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