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NAGASAKI

JAPAN
Oct 31, 2013
Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors slam Obama over nuclear test
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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 7, 2013
Tracing the path of history in northern Nagasaki
The horn blast from the incoming ferry echoes clearly through the top-floor hall of Hirado Castle. From the donjon's vantage point, my husband and I can clearly see the large passenger ship as it enters the sheltered bay of Hirado's port, marking the end of its route between this small city on Nagasaki...
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2013
Hiroshima, Nagasaki warn Obama on plutonium tests
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki separately sent letters of protest to President Barack Obama on Tuesday after the United States revealed it had conducted an experiment using plutonium to examine the capabilities of nuclear weapons between April and June.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2013
High school students hand over 195,000 anti-nuclear signatures to U.N.
A group of 20 high school students from Japan selected by a civic organization in Nagasaki handed over Tuesday a petition with around 195,000 signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons to the secretariat of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 19, 2013
A-bomb museum items on Google
Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled Monday an online collection of items displayed at museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki documenting the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2013
Artist raises awareness of tragedy through video display in Bosnian town
Artist Saeri Kiritani decided to take part in an exhibition at a nuclear shelter in Bosnia-Herzegovina as she believes it is her responsibility, as a national of the only country to ever come under atomic attack, to raise global awareness of the tragedies that hit the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2013
High school students signatures for nuke abolition reaches 1 million
A students' group in Nagasaki Prefecture said Sunday it has collected more than 1 million signatures from senior high school students calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons since it started gathering them in 2001.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 10, 2013
A-bombed cities don't buy Abe vow
Is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe truly willing to play an active role in ridding the world of nuclear arms?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2013
Mayor skeptical of Abe vow at Nagasaki rites to seek end to nuclear arms
Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue remains critical of Abe government's inaction, despite prime minister's pledge to abolish nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2013
Nagasaki's A-bomb 'relics' few, preserved
There is a section of Shiroyama Elementary School, run by the city of Nagasaki, that does not match the rest of the modern building.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2013
'Mitsuaki Iwago's Photo Exhibition "Animal Family"'
Prominent wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwago has been documenting animals more than 40 years, with some of his work being featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine.
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JAPAN
Aug 6, 2013
Censored at first, memoirs penned by teen Nagasaki A-bomb survivor revived
A diary written by a 14-year-old girl after she was caught up in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, is regarded as one of the most telling memoirs of the event.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2013
Scholars hunt for dispersed A-bomb health logs
Japanese scholars are trying to locate records of early research on the health impact of radiation from the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to create a digital archive accessible to anyone.
JAPAN / History
Aug 4, 2013
Britain backed use of A-bomb against Japan: U.S. documents
Britain supported the use of atomic bombs against Japan in World War II about a month before the United States dropped the first one on Hiroshima, documents show.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 31, 2013
Hiroshima, Nagasaki differ on urging Japan to oppose nuke weapon use
Hiroshima and Nagasaki will adopt differing approaches in urging the government to join a group of countries endorsing a statement against the use of nuclear weapons in upcoming events to mark the 1945 atomic bombings, according to their mayors.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 25, 2013
Spirits linger in the trinkets of Hiroshima's dead
They say most people have one or more defining childhood incidents — something that sets the course of their adult life and molds their personality. Filmmaker Linda Hoaglund had one, and it was so striking that to this day she can still remember the flush on her face, the tingling of her skin and the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 8, 2013
Meat-eating dinos lived in Nagasaki
Two fossilized tooth fragments from a prehistoric carnivore are found in a layer of ground about 84 million years old on the Nagasaki Peninsula.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2013
Rites held to honor A-bombed Chinese prisoners
A memorial ceremony to commemorate Chinese who were imprisoned in Nagasaki Prefecture on spying charges during the war and who later died during the U.S. atomic bombing in August 1945 was held Sunday at Nagasaki's Peace Park.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2013
A-bomb survivor, anti-nuclear movement leader Senji Yamaguchi dies at 82
Senji Yamaguchi, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing and a leading figure in Japan's anti-nuclear movement, dies at a hospital at age 82.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 16, 2013
Stalker sentenced to hang for double murder
The Nagasaki District Court on Friday sentenced a 28-year-old man to death for the 2011 murders of two relatives of a woman he had been stalking, in a lay judge trial.
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.

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