The Latest Breaking News from Hiroshima

Report: Impact of Taiwanese Earthquake on DRAM Output to be Negligible in Q2

Following the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Taiwan on April 3, 2024, there was immediate concern over what impact this could have on chip production within the country. Even for a well-prepared country like Taiwan, the tremor was the strongest quake to hit the region in 25 years, making it…

AnandTech · Apr 10, 2024

"Disgusting and horrifying": GOP lawmaker under fire for likening Gaza to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"I don't care how much he tries to walk back the statement, it's clear what he meant," said one Democrat.

Axios · Mar 31, 2024

GOPer says Gaza should be like Hiroshima

"I used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible"

Salon · Mar 31, 2024

Oppenheimer set for release in Japan; critics say 'film made to validate that atomic bomb was used to save American lives'

Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film 'Oppenheimer' is finally set for its release in Japan.

The Times of India · Mar 19, 2024

‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto

The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japanese master whose work ranges from an open-access Hiroshima fire station to a building seemingly made of books

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024

Nekoyacho Bldg is a Hiroshima office on a crossroads of 'food, work and entertainment'

Nekoyacho Bldg has been designed by Suppose Design Office as a 21st century workspace in Hiroshima, Japan

Wallpaper · Dec 23, 2023

Christopher Nolan responds to criticism of Oppenheimer not showing Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

The director also admitted he could never have predicted how well the biopic performed at the box office

Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2023

What survivors of trauma have taught this eminent psychiatrist about hope

In his new book, 97-year-old Robert Jay Lifton shares the "survivor wisdom" he's learned from those who've lived through terrible events — the Holocaust, Hiroshima, POW camps.

WEKU · Oct 8, 2023

‘Then the black rain fell’: survivor’s recollections of Hiroshima inspire new film

The 230-page unpublished memoir will reflect the horrors suffered by ordinary Japanese citizens in a feature-length drama

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2023

Photos of Hiroshima mushroom cloud over-simplify the bomb, capturing its power but not its tragedy

After seeing “Oppenheimer,” I have become more certain than ever that we must begin looking at the bomb — at all nuclear weapons — in a more nuanced and honest way if our world is to remain livable, writes retired history professor James Huffman.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 1, 2023