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HIROSHIMA

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JAPAN
Jun 22, 2018
Hiroshima Prefecture to open International Baccalaureate school as it looks to move away from Japan's passive education style
Hiroshima Prefecture is set to open an International Baccalaureate boarding school next spring — a rare move by a local government that officials hope will help schools shift away from Japan's typically passive style of education.
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SPORTS
Jun 7, 2018
Three-time Olympian Dai Tamesue provides detailed critique of sports in Japan
Dai Tamesue, a former track star who made Japan's Olympic team for the 2000 Sydney Games, the 2004 Athens Games and the 2008 Beijing Games, has experienced the highest levels of competition in Japan, the United States and elsewhere.
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JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jun 7, 2018
Hiroshima hibakusha, 86, kept horror of A-bombing to himself, until now
For more than 70 years, Hiroshima resident Tokuo Shimizu kept the gruesome memories of the hellish scenes he saw at ground zero the day after the atomic bombing to himself.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 28, 2018
British artist Andy Brown captures essence of baseball through paintings
Some baseball fans carry a glove to a game hoping to catch a ball. Andy Brown is a little bit different.
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JAPAN
May 25, 2018
Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine fires torpedo decoy by mistake
A submarine operated by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force mistakenly launched a torpedo decoy off the Kii Peninsula in western Japan early Thursday.
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CULTURE / Art
May 19, 2018
Through the lens: Japanese photographers explore nuclear narratives
Whether it's the work of Robert Capa in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) or Richard Drew's iconic "Falling Man" picture of a man free-falling from the World Trade Center in 2001, photography has provided us with the images that we've used to visualize every disaster of the 20th century and beyond. But...
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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
May 14, 2018
Let's discuss the capture of the Shikoku prison escapee
A fugitive who eluded thousands of police officers combing a small island for more than three weeks was finally caught 70 km away in Hiroshima.
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JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
May 10, 2018
Hiroshima hibakusha recalls warmth of Southeast Asian students who helped her survive A-bomb blast
Meiko Kurihara was a 19-year-old mobilized student at Toyo Kogyo (now Mazda Motor Corp.) when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
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SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
May 9, 2018
Amazing transformation puts Sanfrecce firmly in driver's seat
No one who watched Sanfrecce Hiroshima barely avoid relegation last season could have imagined that they would top the J. League table after 13 games of the 2018 campaign.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2018
A-bomb survivors praise denuclearization agreement at inter-Korean summit
JIJI — Survivors of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki welcomed the denuclearization accord reached at Friday's rare summit between North and South Korea.

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