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Two veterans go to Japan to discuss the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament.
In 2018, the average age of a Hibakusha (被爆者) — the Japanese word for a survivor of the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki — is eighty-one. When you speak with these (…)
Seventy years ago, the United States committed one of the most horrific atrocities in military history. Why?
Seventy years ago today, the United States detonated a plutonium implosion-type atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing between 40,000 and 80,000 people.
It was only (…)
69 years ago today the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. 40,000 people were killed instantly, and many others died soon after. Three days earlier they had also bombed Hiroshima. Colin Wilson remembers meeting a survivor of that bombing.
The Atomic Bomb Dome, (…)
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) — A study by Hiroshima University researchers has shown men who entered Hiroshima just after the 1945 atomic bombing on the same day faced greater chances of death from cancer than those who came to the city three days after the blast.
The findings suggest that human health (…)
More than half a century after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors are 2.5 times more likely than others in Japan to develop leukemia, a survey by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) has shown.
According to an analysis of health surveys that the RERF (…)
HIROSHIMA — A memorial service for Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was held Monday, with the South Korean consul general calling for improved ties between the two countries.
More than 20,000 people from what is now South Korea are estimated to have fallen victim (…)
Britain supported the use of atomic bombs by the United States against Japan in World War II about a month before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima, documents recently declassified by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration showed.
The documents illustrate Britain’s (…)
NAGASAKI — A local court has ordered the municipal government of this atomic-bombed city to issue a certificate of hibakusha, or an A-bomb survivor, to a South Korean man who claimed he was exposed to radiation during the attack.
In its ruling on July 9, the Nagasaki District Court revoked the (…)
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) — The number of atomic-bombing victims, or “hibakusha,” in Hiroshima totaled 557,478, research by the municipal government showed Saturday.
The latest figure rose by around 15,000 from the previous tally 14 years ago as the local government made a fresh review of 120,000 (…)
In the battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear structures, which continue to spew out radiation incessantly, I cannot but identify the presence and activity of a collective human will. Here, I am not using a metaphor. Those living ruins are, in fact, the incarnation of the will of those humans who (…)
OSAKA, July 30, Kyodo—Some 67.1 percent of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 believe Japan should reduce the number of nuclear power stations, according to results released Saturday of a Kyodo News survey taken after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. (…)
HIROSHIMA – Inside Hiroshima’s Peace Park, tens of thousands of survivors, relatives, government officials and diplomats observed the 67th anniversary Monday of the city’s atomic bombing, while just outside others marked the occasion by loudly protesting the decision to reactivate two nuclear (…)
In spring 2004, young bureaucrats at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry urged their boss to halt the government-backed nuclear fuel cycle project, which involves reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to produce plutonium that can be reused to produce electricity.
“But we’re talking about (…)
NAGASAKI — Hirofumi Ogawa was stunned as he watched a hydrogen explosion take place at Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 1 reactor on March 12, the day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, on television at his home here in Nagasaki. As a former power plant manufacturing (…)
A former director-general of the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) opposed improving Japan’s nuclear disaster countermeasures to meet international levels, and ignored subordinates’ warnings in 2006 that disaster-related measures were flawed, internal agency documents (…)
The working group of the government’s Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) instructed power utilities to “write a composition” in 1992 on why there would be no need for the nuclear watchdog to consider a long-term power loss at nuclear power plants in its review of the country’s safety guidelines for (…)
Wary of criticism, officials shelved withdrawal from nuclear reprocessing business
Top officials from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) secretly met in 2002 to discuss withdrawing from a project to reprocess nuclear fuel at the Rokkasho (…)
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe and others will form a group to collect personal experiences and artifacts from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and preserve them for future generations.
“The nuclear accident in Fukushima has brought home to people around the world that they may (…)
Data from a 1950s survey showing some 13,000 people claimed they were exposed to radioactive rain after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has surfaced, and the government is being asked to use the data to study the effects of such rain on people’s health.
The Radiation Effects Research (…)
In a disturbing pattern dating to the 1990s, electric power companies have been found to be wooing Liberal Democratic Party Diet members at breakfast meetings organized by an industry organization, along with offering major campaign contributions and other perks, such as wining and dining at (…)
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