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NEWS ABOUT: Hiroshima

Hiroshima stories: 8 news summaries
OPINION

Fashion's Issey Miyake Haunted by Hiroshima

Obama's disarmament talk inspires A-bomb survivor to speak up

Jul 14, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Issey Miyake’s clothes are famous for color and exuberance, but the Japanese designer has a tragic past: He survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Miyake has declined to talk about the blast, “preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed,” he writes in... More »

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Barack Obama • Japan • nuclear weapons • Hiroshima • peace • arms control • fashion designer • Issey Miyake • President Obama

 Japanese Man, 
 93, Survived 
 Both A-Bombs 

Was on business in Hiroshima; lived in Nagasaki

Mar 24, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - At 93, a Japanese man has become the first certified survivor of both atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the AP reports. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business Aug. 6, 1945, when the US bombed the city; after a night there, he returned home to Nagasaki, bombed Aug. 9.... More »

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Japan • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • atomic bomb • survivors

(Newser) - Hapcheon residents think they live in the unluckiest town in earth. When Japan occupied the tiny South Korean farming community during World War II, it sent locals to work in munitions factories—in Hiroshima. Thousands of Hapcheon residents died instantly when the bomb dropped. The rest were shunned when they... More »

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South Korea • Japan • Hiroshima • lawsuit • war reparations

 Crashed 
 Subs Carried 
 '1200 Hiroshimas' 

Lawmakers demand answers after British, French subs collide under the Atlantic

Feb 17, 09 7:15 AM CST
(Newser) - British lawmakers are demanding to know how the flagships of the British and French nuclear submarine fleets—each carrying missiles with enough power for 1,250 Hiroshima bombings—managed to collide earlier this month, the Independent reports. Defense sources say the crash was just incredibly bad luck, but experts are... More »

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France • nuclear weapons • Hiroshima • crash • submarine • British military • Britain • French military

Marine Guilty of Sex 'Misconduct' in Hiroshima

But he's acquitted
of raping
Japanese teen

May 9, 08 5:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US Marine was convicted of "wrongful sexual misconduct" with a 19-year-old Japanese woman, but was acquitted of the more serious charge of rape, reports CNN. The Marine, 20, is one of four accused of attacking the woman in Hiroshima. The case was heard by an American military court... More »

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Japan • rape • Hiroshima • Marine

4 Marines Face Court-Martial
in Hiroshima
Rape Case

Gang-rape trial
to begin in spring

Mar 6, 08 6:10 AM CST
(Newser) - The American military has announced it will court-martial four Marines on charges of gang-raping a Japanese woman in Hiroshima last year. The first two Marines will face a general court-martial in late April or early May. Japanese prosecutors had concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to charge them in... More »

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Japan • Condoleezza Rice • US military • Hiroshima • Okinawa • court martial • Marine

Hiroshima Bomb Pilot Dead at 92

Pilot defended his role to the last, said he had 'no regrets'

Nov 1, 07 3:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The commander and pilot of the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945—the first military use of nuclear weapons—died today, the Associated Press reports. Paul Tibbets was 92, and requested no funeral or headstone for fear that they might attract anti-nuclear protesters. Tibbets always... More »

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Japan • nuclear weapons • obituary • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • World War II • atomic bomb

Japanese Pol Resigns Over A-Bomb Gaffe

Defense minister
said WWII bombings were inevitable

Jul 3, 07 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japan's defense minister has resigned in a storm of protest over remarks he made last weekend that the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. Fumio Kyuma said he understood the US decision to drop the bombs, and that "it couldn't be helped." He also suggested that... More »

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Japan • Fumio Kyuma • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • atomic bomb

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