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NAGASAKI

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2015
Japan's budget king turns to robots to revive bubble-era theme park
Light shows and pirate rides helped Hideo Sawada pull a bankrupt theme park in Kyushu back to profitability.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2015
'Julio Gonzalez Retrospective: Master of Iron Sculpture'
June 7-July 20
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
Jun 2, 2015
A-bomb exhibit to be held in Nagasaki's U.S. sister city
A national peace memorial hall in Nagasaki says it will hold its annual overseas exhibition on the two atomic bombings this year in the of St. Paul, Minnesota, with which it has a sister-city relationship.
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
WORLD
May 23, 2015
U.N. disarmament talks collapse
The U.S. blocks a global document aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons, over a deadline for a nuclear-free Middle East zone.
JAPAN / Politics
May 22, 2015
Japan fails to get A-bomb invite reinserted into NPT review draft
Japan fails to convince the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference to call on world leaders to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki when it revises the document.
JAPAN
May 13, 2015
U.N. disarmament conference drops call for leaders to visit Hiroshima after China envoy complains
The Chinese envoy asked that the proposal be deleted because Tokyo is “trying to portray Japan as a victim of the Second World War rather than a victimizer,” he said.
JAPAN
May 10, 2015
Offspring upholding hibakusha legacy
As aging hibakusha find it increasingly difficult to travel abroad to speak about the horrors of the nuclear attacks nearly 70 years ago, their children are stepping up efforts to follow in their footsteps.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 2, 2015
WWII park in U.S. to remain neutral
Promoting specific views on the history of U.S. atomic bomb development is not the intention of a national park to be built to commemorate facilities related to the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. wartime atomic bomb program, the head of a body cooperating with the U.S. government on the plan indicated...
JAPAN
May 1, 2015
Mayors for Peace renew commitment to abolish nuclear weapons
Thousands of cities worldwide united in the pursuit of a nuclear-free world renewed their commitment to work toward the abolition of nuclear weapons during a gathering Wednesday at the United Nations, where a nuclear disarmament conference is underway.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2015
Mayors of A-bombed cities hope to 'overcome gaps' preventing a nuke-free world
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have said in recent interviews that they hope an upcoming U.N. conference will lead countries to overcome their differences and move closer to a nuclear-free world.
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.
BASKETBALL
Mar 27, 2015
Nagasaki withdraws application to enter bj-league for 2015-16 season
Last September, the bj-league gave a Nagasaki-based expansion franchise the green light to begin play for the 2015-16 season.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 24, 2015
Nagasaki A-bomb survivor has pacifist mission
Hiroko Tsutsumi remembers being drawn to a photo in a leaflet for a war-related exhibition at a museum she visited last fall.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2015
Pope pays tribute to Japan's 'hidden' Christians, rediscovered 150 years ago
At the Vatican, Pope Francis pays tribute to the generations of Japan's 'hidden Christians.'
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2015
A-bomb survivor groups condemn Putin remark on nuclear readiness
Atomic-bomb survivor groups in Nagasaki and Hiroshima have condemned a recent remark by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he was ready to put his country's nuclear weapons on alert amid the crisis in Ukraine last year.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2015
South Korea honors ex-Nagasaki mayor over support for A-bomb survivors
The South Korean government honored Hitoshi Motoshima, the late mayor of Nagasaki, on Thursday in recognition of his support for Korean atomic bomb survivors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 9, 2015
Items taken from persecuted Christians return to Nagasaki in rare exhibition
More than 500 items confiscated from Japanese Christians during their brutal persecution in the 19th century from the late Edo Period to the early Meiji Era are back in Nagasaki for the first time in about 150 years.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 13, 2015
Nagasaki to invite U.N. chief Ban to A-bomb ceremony
Nagasaki City Hall will invite U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to its peace ceremony on Aug. 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city, Mayor Tomihisa Taue said Friday.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

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