Nagasaki marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on a rainy Saturday, amid frustration among the dwindling number of survivors that their powerful calls for eradicating nuclear weapons are falling on deaf ears.
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Nagasaki marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on Saturday, amid frustration among the dwindling number of survivors that their powerful calls for eradicating nuclear arms are falling on deaf ears. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/09/japan/nagasaki-80th-anniversary-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #atomicbombings #wwii #history #hibakusha
This nonprofit is fighting to preserve ‘survivor’ trees from Hiroshima’s atomic bombing — and share their seeds with the world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/08/09/issues/green-legacy-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-trees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #hiroshima #hibakusha #nagasaki #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii #unitednations
On Aug. 9, 1945, Nagasaki was devastated by an atomic bomb. That makes a visit to Kokura, the original target, a sobering reminder of all that would have been destroyed — and all that was where the bombs landed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/09/lifestyle/kokura-walking-tour-atomic-bomb-nagasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons
https://www.europesays.com/?p=2313922 'Ever heard of Dresden?': US Ambassador Huckabee slams UK PM Starmer over Gaza stance – The Jerusalem Post #HumanitarianAid #Israel #IsraelAidToGaza #IsraelHamasWar #KeirStarmer #MikeHuckabee #WWII
On Aug. 9, 1945, 17-year-old Koichi Tagawa survived the Nagasaki bombing and began a diary. His words captured the fire, the loss and the moment he became an orphan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/history/nagasaki-nuclear-bomb-diary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #nuclearweapons
Mayors for Peace, a worldwide organization of city leaders, started a three-day general conference in Nagasaki on Friday, the day before the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/mayors-nagasaki-conference/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #un
Part of the new peace garden in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, which was opened recently to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima in Japan on the 6th of August 1945.
During WWII, the British used Monopoly games to help POWs escape
https://www.alojapan.com/1341420/hiroshima-schoolboy-keeps-memories-of-war-alive-with-guided-tours-in-english/ Hiroshima schoolboy keeps memories of war alive with guided tours in English #AtomicBombings #children #ElementarySchools #English #Hiroshima #JapanTours #NuclearWeapons #schools #tours #volunteers #wwii Hiroshima – Since the age of 7, schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with a mission: ensuring that the horrors of nuclear war do not fade from memory with the pass
The controversial Yasukuni Shrine may draw headlines, but Tokyo’s diverse array of museums and memorials share countless perspectives on WWII’s causes and consequences. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/08/travel/tokyo-ww2-museums-yasukuni-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #wwii #wardead #warcrimes #museums
The atomic bombings were a tragic but nearly unavoidable result of Japan’s refusal to surrender, the momentum of wartime technology, and the brutal logic of ending a devastating war quickly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/07/japan/we-must-commemorate-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #wwii #us #harrytruman
People in Fukushima Prefecture and other parts of Japan are working to pass down the stories of "mock atomic bombs" the United States dropped in the country during World War II, which resulted in over 400 deaths. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/wwii-us-mock-atomic-bombings-on-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #fukushima #wwii
FEMALE CAMP GUARDS: In the Sights of the Investigators in »East and West Germany« by Lorenz Ingmann, 2024
Through extensive research, the author has compiled the biographies of three former female concentration camp guards and one former political inmate. These are examples of how such cases were treated differently in East and West after the end of the Nazi regime.
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Not saints, not martyrs — teenage nurses struggle to care for others while barely holding themselves together in “Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/07/film/nagasaki-in-the-shadow-of-the-flash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #wwii #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #jumpeimatsumoto
#WWII Thirty-five years ago today I visited Hiroshima's Peace Park and Memorial and folded paper cranes.
Sadako Sasaki was just two when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Though she survived the blast, she later developed leukaemia from radiation exposure. Inspired by a Japanese legend, she folded over 1,000 origami cranes, wishing for recovery and peace. https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/people/hiroshima-remembers-its-youngest-survivor-the-heartbreaking-story-of-twelve-year-old-sadako-sasaki-and-her-thousand-paper-cranes-for-peace-article-152414836
#WWII As Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, streetcars exposed to the attack continue to provide transportation and opportunities for peace education in the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/atomic-bombed-train/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#Echobox=1754389365-2
https://www.alojapan.com/1340431/saved-from-the-worst-kyoto-still-bears-scars-of-war/ Saved from the worst, Kyoto still bears scars of war #AtomicBombings #Kyoto #KyotoTopics #wwii #京都 #京都府 Long before Hollywood and “Oppenheimer” canonized the claim, Kyoto embraced the identity of a city spared from the ravages of World War II. In the 2023 movie, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson casually removes the ancient capital from a list of potential targets for the atomic bomb, claiming he and his wife honeymooned there
In World War II, Kyoto was spared as a target of the atomic bomb. But the ancient capital was bombed several times by conventional means and carries the marks of those attacks through the present day. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/07/travel/kyoto-wwii-aerial-bombing-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #wwii #kyoto #atomicbombings
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As someone from Taiwan, how the #WWII ended at Pacific battle fields has always been an important and mind bending cautionary tale for me. The Imperial Japanese Government did many genocidal acts during their campaign and colonisation. I think it is fair to say hatery towards Japanese officers in the colonies and occupied territories is quite widespread. But that doesn't mean Allies dropping atomic bombs in Hiroshima is forgivable. Evil doesn't mean you should do evil back.
