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Lunch done. Catching a tram from the #Hiroshima port, possibly to the hotel to drop off heavy(er) bags…
A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato sinking was held in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/08/japan/japan-battleship-yamato-memorial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #imperialjapanesenavy #kagoshima #hiroshima #sdf
The Japan Times · Crew members of sunken battleship Yamato remembered on 80th anniversary
'When asked what the area would look like after they [the #IDF unit] were through, they replied: "Hiroshima. That's what I'm saying, #Hiroshima."'
A new report from Breaking the Silence ( #BtS), an Israel-based NGO, has compiled testimony from #soldiers who detail how they razed plots of land during the war in their mission to expand the buffer zone between #Gaza and #Israel deeper into the strip.
CBCIDF soldier details blowing up homes in Gaza, recalls seeing 'the signs of people's lives' | CBC NewsA new report from Breaking the Silence, an Israel-based NGO, includes interviews with Israeli soldiers who detail how they completely razed homes and infrastructure on a swath of land between Israel and Gaza to expand a buffer zone at least one kilometre further into the strip.
"im not here to discuss #Palestine, i only care about #globalwarming..." a lady told me, cutting off my answer 2sum1 who asked for #Gaza updates.
..as i stared dumbly back at her, my brain went off like
hmmm, so you dont see how setting off #Hiroshima levels of nuclear bombs nearly EVERY DAY 4 17 MONTHS in a small concentrated area would, indeed, create massive amounts of heat that would rise into the bubble around earth, bfurther heated by sun, and increase global temps? ...nah, thats crazy.
A Swiss man who last spring became the first non-Japanese "katana kaji" — a swordsmith who makes Japanese swords — has opened his own workshop studio in the city of Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/24/japan/swiss-swordsmith-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #switzerland #japanesecrafts
The Japan Times · Japan's first non-Japanese swordsmith opens Hiroshima workshop
The Japanese translation of my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha* has been released by The University Press of Nagoya.
@histodons @sts #nuclear #Hiroshima #GlobalHibakusha
Check it out and find a link to the publisher's page on my book website:
Nuclear BodiesHome | Nuclear Bodies
A Japanese translation of my most recent book, *Nuclear Bodies: the Global Hibakusha* (Yale 2022) is being released this week from Nagoya University Press.
@sts @histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima
Details at the link:
www.unp.or.jpグローバル・ヒバクシャ « 名古屋大学出版会
Italian President Sergio Mattarella visited Hiroshima on Saturday where he laid flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Peace Memorial Park. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/09/japan/italian-hiroshima-peace-park/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sergiomattarella #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii
The Japan Times · Italian president lays flowers at Hiroshima Peace Park
Someone needs to tell Hegseth that the Enola Gay was a delivery system for one of the most horrific war crimes committed by the US, the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, NOT some sort of queer DEI pentagon grooming propaganda.
The Hiroshima District Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the operation of the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power's Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/06/japan/crime-legal/hiroshima-court-rejection-ikata/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nuclearenergy #hiroshima #japanesecourts #ikata #restarts #earthquakes #disasterpreparedness #ehime
The Japan Times · Hiroshima court rejects request for Ikata reactor injunction
A Japanese lawmaker spoke at a meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons for the first time as he attended the third conference in New York on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/05/japan/japan-lawmaker-nuke-ban-treaty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #upperhouse #hiroshima #nuclearweapons #newyork
The Japan Times · Japanese lawmaker addresses nuke ban treaty meeting for first time
A senior official of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Nihon Hidankyo urged the world to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons during a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/04/japan/hidankyo-meeting-urge-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #wwii #us #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nobelprize #hiroshima #nagasaki
The Japan Times · Nihon Hidankyo executive urges abolition of nuclear weapons at U.N. meeting
A boarding school on a small island in Hiroshima Prefecture has big hopes for its students as they prepare to graduate and venture out into new cities and countries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/03/japan/hiroshima-global-education-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #education #schools #highschools #internationalbaccalaureate #studyabroad
The Japan Times · Model school for global education rooted on small Hiroshima island
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. #History #Aircraft #AtomicBomb #Bomber #Hiroshima #ManhattanProject #Nagasaki #SecondWorldWar #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24117-en/
World History EncyclopediaBoeing B-29 SuperfortressThe Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. The largest of all Second World War (1939-45) bombers, B-29s were used to strike Japanese targets...
The annual number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which shows how the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing devastated the city of Hiroshima, has exceeded 2 million for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/03/japan/hiroshima-museum-visitors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #nihonhidankyo #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii #nobelprize #museums
The Japan Times · Annual visitors to Hiroshima museum top 2 million for the first time
I can't find the words for what I felt visiting the #hiroshima peace park including the memorials and the museum. A-Bombs shouldn't simply exist. And the argument, that it is a quenching weapon is bullshit.