The Latest Breaking News from Hiroshima

Vending machine to offer fried oysters overseas

HIROSHIMA -- "One day, fried oysters could replace hot dogs as America's favorite food," oyster farmer Takashi Suzuki said with starry eyes.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Jan 25, 2022

3 billion yen. siphoned out of Hiroshima nursing home operator's bank account

Hiroshima-based social welfare corporation Sun Phoenix, which operates special nursing homes for the elderly in that prefecture and in Tokyo and Okayama, effectively sold its management rights, which is not allowed by the central government, and about 3 billion yen in its bank account was siphoned away, The Yomiuri Shimbun…

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Jan 23, 2022

Dinosaur food and Hiroshima bomb survivors: maidenhair trees are 'living fossils' and your new favourite plant

Most of us are captivated by the thought of a “living fossil”, which is any organism that appeared millions of years ago in the fossil record and survives today, relatively unchanged.

The Conversation · Jan 20, 2022