Hiroshima Guilt
On a warm summer morning above Hiroshima, Japan, an atomic bomb was for the first time dropped on a target as an act of war. The date was August 6, 1945. Less than a minute after the b...
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Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima is a beautiful modern city located near the southwestern tip of the main Japanese island of Honshu. It had been a military center with the headquarters of the Japanese sou...
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August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. the Enola Gay, an Air Force B-29 bomber flew over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. On board was a nuclear bomb that the US called Little Boy, ironically the Little Boy meant ...
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Sixty-two years later, the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima still holds such a grip on Japan that its defense minister has had to resign simply for suggesting the attack was "unavoidable."...
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The following is the full text of a Peace Declaration issued
Monday by Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba at a memorial ceremony to
mark the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima:
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(EDS: WEBSITE'S URL IS:
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/hiroshima-koku/en/)
The Hiroshima-based daily Chugoku Shimbun opened an
English-language website Tuesday to present translated editions of...
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Three Italian motorcyclists left Venice on Friday on a
20,000-kilometer trans-Eurasian journey to Hiroshima via Belarus to
campaign against radiation tragedies.
The Marco Polo Team, led by...
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A Hiroshima-based civic group presented Belarus on Friday with
one of the streetcar paving stones damaged in the 1945 U.S. atomic
bombing of the Japanese city in a ceremony marked by memories...
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A Hiroshima-based civic group presented the Central Asian
republic of Kyrgyzstan on Thursday with one of the streetcar paving
stones hit by the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city, engra...
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