Last Updated: Monday, January 25, 2010, 11:38
"Black rain" following the 1945 US atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima appears to have fallen in wider areas than previously believed, according to a research by the city government.
Last Updated: Friday, January 22, 2010, 20:48
US President Barack Obama has said he wants to visit Hiroshima, the city destroyed by the atomic bomb dropped during the World War II.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 20:01
The premises of the defunct Union Carbide factory will be opened for public from next month, 25 years after the gas leak from it killed and maimed thousands of people, a senior minister said today.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 13:00
US President Barack Obama said he wants to visit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were destroyed by US nuclear bombs at the end of World War II, during his time in office.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 13:20
The mayor of Hiroshima says 70 percent of the city`s citizens support the proposal to bid for the 2020 Olympics along with Nagasaki, Japanese media reported.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 12:41
An international panel on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament opened a meeting on Sunday in Hiroshima, the world`s first city to suffer an atomic bombing, seeking ways to bring about a world without nuclear weapons.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 13:16
US President Barack Obama is unlikely to stop by Hiroshima and Nagasaki during his possible visit to Japan in November because he would not be here long enough to do so, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official indicated.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 12:54
Japan said it would stand by a self-imposed ban on nuclear weapons as it commemorated the 64th anniversary on Thursday of the world`s first atomic attack on the western city of Hiroshima.
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