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- Research articles 2002-01-01
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- US House Speaker makes historic Hiroshima visit
- HIROSHIMA, Japan AFP — US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid flowers Tuesday at a memorial to the Hiroshima atomic bombing, becoming the highest-ranking sitting US official to pay respects at the site. Pelosi, a Democrat, was in Hiroshima for a meeting of parliament speakers of the Group of Eight...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Hiroshima gov. asks Clinton to visit during summit
- HIROSHIMA, Feb. 22 Kyodo Hiroshima Gov. Yuzan Fujita on Tuesday asked U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley to invite U.S. President Bill Clinton to visit the city during his stay in Japan to attend the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa in July, Hiroshima prefectural...
- Research articles 2000-02-28
- Hiroshima signs agreement to establish ferry route to Pusan
- HIROSHIMA, Sept. 3 Kyodo Hiroshima Prefecture has signed an agreement with a South Korean shipping company paving the way for the establishment of a regular sea route linking the city of Hiroshima and Pusan, Hiroshima Gov. Yuzan Fujita said Monday. Fujita said at a press...
- Research articles 2001-09-10
- Japan remembers nuclear attack on Hiroshima 60 years on
- HIROSHIMA AFP — With wreaths, prayers and emotional calls for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, the Japanese city of Hiroshima is marking the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack. A relative of one of Hiroshima's more than 140,000 dead joined a child in ringing a bell...
- Research articles 2005-08-05
- Protestors mark Hiroshima anniversary near Bush's Texas ranch
- CRAWFORD, United States AFP — A Japanese survivor and a former US prisoner of war in Japan urged an end to nuclear arms as they marked the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack at Hiroshima near US President George W. Bush' Texas ranch. As other protests around...
- Research articles 2005-08-06
- Hiroshima bombing display to visit 101 US cities
- TOKYO AFP — An exhibition marking the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is to visit 101 US cities this year in a bid to raise awareness of nuclear disarmament. The Japanese city is planning to bring the photo and video display to two cities in every state, as well as...
- Research articles 2007-06-08
- FEATURE: New Hiroshima A-bomb museum head mulls role of non-hibakusha
- HIROSHIMA, June 7 Kyodo (EDS: ONE PHOTO ACCOMPANYING THIS STORY IS AVAILABLE VIA E-MAIL. THE PHOTO ADVISORY IS TO FOLLOW) Koichiro Maeda, as the head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, is determined to fulfill his mission of having the tragedy of the 1945 atomic...
- Research articles 2006-06-12
- Kamei wins LDP presidential primary in native Hiroshima
- HIROSHIMA, April 19 Kyodo Shizuka Kamei, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDP, collected all three votes Thursday in his native Hiroshima Prefecture in the first of the party's presidential primary elections. Of 248 votes cast, Kamei collected 199 votes, followed by former...
- Research articles 2001-04-23
- Hiroshima to form unified antinuclear group
- HIROSHIMA, Feb. 27 Kyodo Various antinuclear groups in Hiroshima agreed on Monday to consolidate their campaign to promote a nuclear-free world, ending nearly 40 years of ideological division that has splintered the antinuclear movement in Japan. The agreement culminates two years of effort by an...
- Research articles 2001-03-05
- Hiroshima, Nagasaki plan Olympics bid
- HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct. 12 UPI -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki will make a joint bid to bring the 2020 Summer Olympics to the atomic-bombed Japanese cities, their mayors say. Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima and Tomihisa Taue of Nagasaki announced their plans Sunday, the Japanese Kyodo news agency reported. The announcement comes...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Mazda Starts Production of the CX-9, its Second Crossover SUV for the North American Market; Line-off ceremony held at Hiroshima's Ujina Plant No.1
- Hiroshima, Japan, Oct 30, 2006 - JCN Newswire - Mazda Motor Corporation today held a 'line-off' ceremony for the CX-9 crossover sport-utility vehicle SUV being built for the North American market at the Ujina Plant No.1 near its global headquarters in Hiroshima. Hisakazu Imaki, Mazda's representative director, chairman of...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- Fall out: Smithsonian Institution. (Hiroshima, Japan, bombing exhibition)(Arts, Books and Sport)
- The Smithsonian Institution has elected to cancel its planned exhibition that would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. The exhibition is being canceled because of political pressure and protests by former military personnel. The Smithsonian Institution has elected to cancel its planned exhibition that would commemorate the 50th...
- Research articles 1995-02-04
- Hiroshima survivors slam US as atomic bomber Enola Gay goes on show
- WASHINGTON AFP ? Fifty-eight years after they were engulfed by a firestom set off by a US atom bomb, Hiroshima blast survivors pleaded with the United States to honor their pain before the plane used in the raid goes on public display. Three aging Hiroshima victims travelled from Japan...
- Research articles 2003-12-12
- Hiroshima survivors slam US before atomic bomber Enola Gay goes on display
- WASHINGTON AFP ? Fifty-eight years after being devastated by a US atomic bomb, Hiroshima survivors pleaded with the United States to honor their pain before the plane that dropped the bomb goes on public display. Three aging Hiroshima victims traveled from Japan to lodge written protests with President George...
- Research articles 2003-12-12
- Mayor of Hiroshima slams 'egocentric' US on A-bombing anniversary
- HIROSHIMA, Japan AFP ? The mayor of Hiroshima slammed the United States for continuing to develop nuclear arms, the 59th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing which killed tens of thousands of people in this western Japanese city. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi meanwhile pledged at a ceremony here...
- Research articles 2004-08-06
- Hiroshima mayor leaves for U.S., Europe to promote disarmament
- HIROSHIMA, Jan. 15 Kyodo Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba left Saturday on a nine-day trip to the United States and Europe to promote his city's campaign for a nuclear-free world. Akiba will speak at the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the European Parliament to call on U.S....
- Research articles 2005-01-18
- Rightist destroys reference to Japan's 'mistake' at Hiroshima memorial
- TOKYO, AFP — An avowed nationalist was arrested for vandalising Hiroshima's main memorial to the world's first atomic bombing 60 years ago by chiseling out a reference to Japan's "mistake" of waging war, police said. The activist cut a hole in the granite Memorial Cenotaph dedicated to Hiroshima's 140,000...
- Research articles 2005-07-26
- Japanese maestro takes baton from Bernstein to pray in Hiroshima, Nagasaki
- TOKYO AFP — When Yutaka Sado leads the music on the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, he will not only be praying for peace but taking the baton from his late master Leonard Bernstein. The 44-year-old conductor will lead memorial concerts in Hiroshima on August...
- Research articles 2005-07-27
- Hiroshima remembers 60th anniversary of first nuclear bombing
- HIROSHIMA, Japan AFP — With prayers and flowers, residents of Hiroshima began marking the 60th anniversary of the world's first nuclear bombing which claimed more than 140,000 lives. A bell was tolled at 8:15 am (2315 GMT Friday) and the city observed a minute of silence, the exact moment...
- Research articles 2005-08-05
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