A community portal about Hiroshima with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Japanese city of Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan's islands. It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear...more
A community portal about Hiroshima with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Japanese city of Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan's islands. It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Hiroshima gained municipality status on April 1, 1889 and was designated on April 1, 1980 by government ordinance. The city's current mayor is Tadatoshi Akiba who assumed the office on February 23, 1999.
is considering selling its mainstay plant in Hiroshima Prefecture to raise money, according to sources. Chips down: Elpida Memory Inc.'s DRAM factory in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, is seen in this undated aerial photo. KYODO The DRAM maker is ...
It's a credit to Hiroshima's recovery that if the city were to change its name, you'd never guess its harrowing past. A few miles from Miyajima, one of Japan's most beautiful destinations, the city is lined with shopping malls, its inhabitants ...
A U.S. F/A-18 fighter jet flew over an elementary school in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, at a dangerous and illegally low altitude in December, the Japanese Communist Party's local chapter said. According to an investigation by the party's Hiroshima prefectural committee, the aircraft flew over the school at an altitude of about 200 meters around 1:20 p.m. Dec. 20, in violation of the Aviation Law, which sets the minimum level at 300 meters...
TOKYO, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In his 30th annual peace proposal, released on January 26, Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist association, calls for a nuclear abolition summit to be held in 2015 in Hiroshima and ...