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BOMBINGS

Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 5, 2015
How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This newspaper described the ebb and flow of the war in considerable detail. Censorship was in operation, but the Nippon Times offered voluminous coverage in English based on statements by the Imperial authorities, reports by vernacular Japanese newspapers and foreign news agency dispatches, archival...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 5, 2015
Diary shows Eisenhower had misgivings about A-bomb attacks
A diary kept by a U.S. official has shown that two months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Dwight Eisenhower, then an Army general, expressed misgivings about what had happened, a U.S. think tank said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 5, 2015
Enola Gay pilot Tibbets committed to president's orders, grandson says
Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets, grandson of the U.S. Army Air Force pilot who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, has defended his grandfather's act, saying he was committed to the orders of the U.S. president at the time.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015
The top-secret flights that ended the war
Seventy years after the atomic bombings, time stands still on the Pacific island of Tinian.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jul 29, 2015
Hiroshima tour guide uses homemade models to teach devastation of A-bomb
Volunteer guide Okihiro Terao tells tourists stories about the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima in front of the iconic Atomic Bomb Dome.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jul 17, 2015
A-bomb survivor takes to Skype to relate experience to U.K. Parliament
An atomic bomb survivor on Thursday recounted what she experienced during the U.S. attack on Hiroshima and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons in comments made to members of the British Parliament via the Internet telephone service Skype.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2015
U.S. officials say planned A-bomb park will heed Japanese voices
U.S. officials drafting plans for a memorial park honoring its atomic bomb program in the 1940s say they will take Japanese sensitivities into account.
JAPAN
May 26, 2015
Japan to keep urging world leaders to visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Government officials said they will continue to seek support at international gatherings for Japan's proposal that world leaders visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki after a U.N. nuclear disarmament conference ended last week without issuing a consensus document.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Apr 6, 2015
Hiroshima river still yields debris on 100th anniversary of A-Bomb Dome's completion
Marking the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Hiroshima Commercial Exhibition Hall, which became known as both the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and the Atomic Bomb Dome, a group of students on Sunday retrieved debris from the 1945 atomic bombing in the Motoyasu River, which runs in front of the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2015
Japan, U.S. experts digitizing A-bomb archives
Japanese and American experts are exploring ways to put the data archives of a wartime study of A-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki online.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2015
Fukushima disaster prompts woman to pass on father's stories about A-bomb
Born to parents exposed to radiation from the world's first atomic bombing — carried out by the United States on Hiroshima in 1945 — Mari Tamba said it is her responsibility to talk about the war to young people even though she did not directly experience it.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 17, 2015
Hiroshima mayor angry over Putin's nuclear weapons remark
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui expressed anger over Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks in a documentary broadcast Sunday that Moscow was ready to put its nuclear weapons on alert amid the crisis in Ukraine.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2015
Nagasaki hibakusha recalls struggle to dodge discrimination
Seventy years may have passed, but Nagasaki A-bomb survivor Katsuko Kanamori still suffers from the mental trauma caused by concealing her radiation exposure to avoid discrimination.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2015
Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 37 people
A wave of bomb attacks around Baghdad killed 37 people and wounded dozens more on Tuesday, as at least seven explosions struck in or near the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 24, 2014
Nigerian bombings kill almost 40 in two northeastern cities
At least 37 people were killed in bombings at a bus station and market in Nigeria's northeastern cities of Gombe and Bauchi, according to the police and Red Cross.
WORLD
Oct 22, 2014
Syria air force strikes 200 times in 36 hours, monitor says
The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 airstrikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere.
Japan Times
JAPAN / IMPERIAL ANNALS
Sep 9, 2014
Emperor Hirohito notified about Hiroshima A-bomb half day after
Emperor Hirohito received his first report on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima from the Imperial Japanese Army about half a day after the blast on Aug. 6, 1945, the official record of his reign showed Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2014
Project underway to restage 1947 choir service in Hiroshima church
Christians in Hiroshima both young and old are practicing Handel's "Messiah" as they prepare to restage a choir service that was held at a church near the epicenter two years after the atomic bombing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 27, 2014
Hibakusha in Brazil seek more financial aid from Tokyo
Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who emigrated to Brazil after the end of the Pacific War are making last-ditch efforts to win the same level of support from the Japanese government as survivors residing in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 26, 2014
Famous panels depicting scenes after 1945 A-bombings to be exhibited in Washington
A famous series of large panels depicting the horrors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be exhibited in the United States next year to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attacks.

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