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Statue of Hiroshima A-bomb victim stolen from park in Seattle
July 18, 2024 by Kyodo News
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) — A bronze statue in a Seattle park modeled after Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year-old Japanese girl who died of leukemia following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has […] READ MORE
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‘Remembrance for Peace’ commemorates atomic bombings
August 18, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
According to an excerpt from her essay, “In Hiroshima, Japan, a Teenager Finds an Unexpected Home,” Daisy Okazaki went “to the Peace Park for the memorial of the 74th anniversary […] READ MORE
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Eliminate inhumane nuclear weapons now!
September 12, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: The following is the text of the speech Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka gave Aug. 6, 2019 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after […] READ MORE
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What my grandma left behind
August 2, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
My grandmother and I were always very close. But she had never spoke of her experience of the atomic bomb. “It is too painful for your grandma to talk about […] READ MORE
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Compassion abounds in intimate journey
July 20, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
GENTLY TO NAGASAKI By Joy Kogawa (Halfmoon Bay, B.C.: Caitlin Press Inc., 2016, 214 pp., $25.95 CAD, paper) “Gently to Nagasaki” is filled with honesty, fragility and deep questioning of […] READ MORE
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Obama reiterates call for world without nuclear in historic Hiroshima visit
June 9, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
HIROSHIMA — U.S. President Barack Obama on May 27 became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, where he reiterated his call for a “world without nuclear weapons” during […] READ MORE
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Kerry becomes 1st U.S. sec. of state to visit Hiroshima A-bomb park
April 14, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
HIROSHIMA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on April 11 visited a peace park marking the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in the western Japan city of Hiroshima, the first […] READ MORE
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U.S. designates WWII nuke projects sites as nat’l park
November 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON — The United States on Nov. 10 designated three sites related to its nuclear weapons program in the 1940s as a national park, stepping up preparations to open it […] READ MORE
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‘Urban Samurai’: One atomic bomb survivor’s journey to forgiveness
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
At the age of 8, Takashi Thomas Tanemori lost most of his family in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. His mother and his 14-month-old sister were never found. His eldest […] READ MORE
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Looking onward from the year of infamy
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Accomplished jazz musician and composer Anthony Brown will debut his “life’s work to date” in remembrance of both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear disaster in […] READ MORE
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