Hiroshima

The former (a G7 member) has invited the latter as its guest to this weekend’s summit. The event follows two historic summits between Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, with both leaders visiting each other’s capitals for talks over sake and beer. This was a big deal. These…

Hiroshima, Japan CNN  —  It began with a blinding flash and a deafening boom. Then the shockwave arrived, hurling the young boys into the air and sending shards of glass from exploding windows into their skin. Only later, as they made their way through the hellscape where their thriving city…

As leaders of the Group of Seven richest democracies kick off their summit Friday in Hiroshima, Japan, with a visit to the city's Peace Memorial -- a massive outdoor monument that captures the devastation caused by the atomic bomb -- they pledged their commitment to "achieving a world without nuclear…

Recalling the horrors of the deadly Hiroshima attack of 1945, atomic bomb survivor Kubota Masayuki on May 19 in Japan urged the G7 nations to stop engaging with the nuclear powers in order to maintain peace in the world. Narrating the ordeal that the Japanese people faced during the blast,…

HIROSHIMA, Japan —  The patter of rain had subsided on a gray Friday morning as President Biden and other Group of 7 leaders arrived at the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, the first of two Japanese cities where American planes dropped atomic bombs in August 1945, laying waste to both and…

This week’s summit of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies in Hiroshima will include eight other guest nations, part of a complicated, high-stakes diplomatic gambit meant to settle the world’s most serious crises. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited South Korea, Australia, India, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Comoros and the…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida returned to the campaign trail after being targeted by an explosive device at an event he attended in central Japan, weeks before he hosts the Group of Seven world leaders for a summit. A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion he threw an explosive…

A Japanese mechanic checks the jets between flights at the Tinian airport, on Feb 17, 2023. (Photo: The New York Times) TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway…

International oilfield services company Schlumberger and energy data provider TGS have proposed conducting seismic blasting with high-powered airguns over a 7.7-million-hectare area in Bass Strait.  Key points:The seismic blasts can record up to 250 decibels, louder than the Hiroshima bombThe blasts can deafen whales and dolphins and kill smaller species such as krillThere are also concerns about…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raises a copy of the third report of his Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance over the Ukraine war at the organization’s headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022 (August 4 in Manila). XINHUA PHOTO HIROSHIMA: "Humanity is playing…