1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (349+ words) August 24, 2026 at 16:28 JST Immediate family and close relatives will hold a private funeral. Born in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in 1938, Ishikawa worked for Mainichi Productions Inc. and other organizations before joining a film production company in Hong Kong where he was…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1536+ words) August 22, 2026 at 07:00 JST Robert Tatalovich, left, Kayoko Mori, center, and Tatalovich’s daughter, Haley, walk hand in hand toward the Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on June 3. (Takahiro Kinomura) HIROSHIMA—An American…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (662+ words) By TETSUAKI OTAKI/ Staff Writer August 19, 2026 at 17:47 JST Kazuyuki Yamamaru holds a portrait of his uncle Takeharu in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Aug. 6. (Tetsuaki Otaki) SHIRAOI, Hokkaido—The family of an Ainu soldier killed during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa has applied…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (404+ words) By RYO IKEDA/ Staff Writer August 10, 2026 at 12:37 JST Doves are released in front of the Peace Statue during the memorial ceremony in Nagasaki’s Peace Park on Aug. 9, the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. (Toshiyuki Hayashi) NAGASAKI—Nagasaki marked the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (64+ words) By AKINA NISHI/ Staff Writer August 4, 2026 at 18:06 JST HIROSHIMA—For years, Hiroko Inagaki’s monthly ritual was an act of devotion. Now, at 85, her final chore is complete. [Read More] Hiroshima warns of ‘third’ nuclear catastrophe on 81st anniversary Locals split over…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1222+ words) August 7, 2026 at 17:43 JST Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, left, speaks at a meeting to hear atomic bomb survivors’ comments in Hiroshima on Aug. 6. (Toshiyuki Hayashi) HIROSHIMA--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stopped short of ruling out future revisions to Japan’s non-nuclear weapons…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (834+ words) August 6, 2026 at 18:29 JST People in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 observed a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m., the exact time the atomic bomb was dropped, as this year marks the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings. (Kengo Hiyoshi) HIROSHIMA—As Hiroshima marked the 81st anniversary…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1252+ words) By KOJI SONODA/ Senior Staff Writer August 6, 2026 at 18:18 JST Physicist James Franck, a Nobel laureate, took part in the top-secret Manhattan Project. (Captured from Nobel Foundation website) Looking up at the summer sky on my commute the other day, I…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago   (293+ words) By HARUKA KOBAYASHI/ Staff Writer October 19, 2025 at 07:00 JST The microscopic model of the wartime battleship Yamato has a width of just 0.039 millimeter, roughly half the thickness of a strand of hair. (Provided by the Kure Maritime Museum) KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (869+ words) By MIZUKI SATO/ Staff Writer July 24, 2026 at 07:00 JST Tokyo is keeping tight-lipped on future defense budgets in an apparent attempt to prevent a public backlash over what is widely expected to be an enormous sum. Defense spending will most certainly…...