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'Love at Six Thousand Degrees' is a refreshing inversion of the trauma narrative

Maki Kashimada's work is a fascinating exploration of the sources of our own cruelty and our level of individual agency when healing from trauma.

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EU envoy pays respects to victims of atomic bomb

NAGASAKI -- Jean-Eric Paquet, the EU ambassador to Japan, visited Nagasaki City on Friday to pay tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing there. The visit was made possible after the EU, which has been supporting Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, approached Nagasaki to deepen ties with the city…

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Pregnant monkey baffles experts as she was living alone in cage for years

Momo, a white-handed gibbon, shocked staff at a Nagasaki zoo after becoming pregnant as she was living in her own cage and was not in contact with any other male monkey

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8 Confirmed Dead in Ship Sinking off Japan and South Korea

A Chinese official said Thursday that eight people have died in the sinking of a cargo ship in waters between Japan and South Korea. Lyu Guijun, the consul general in the western Japanese city of Fukuoka, told state broadcaster CGTN that six of the eight victims were Chinese, The Associated…

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Cargo ship sinks off Japan, leaving two dead, nine missing

Two people died and nine were missing after a cargo ship sank off southwestern Japan early on Wednesday amid fierce winter winds, the coast guard said, as it continued to search for survivors.

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Russian ex-president Medvedev blasts Japanese PM over US ‘subservience’: ‘He should disembowel himself’

Medvedev said joint statement ‘betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

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Biden weighs visit to Japan's Nagasaki during G-7 summit in May - reports

U.S. President Joe Biden is considering a trip to the Japanese city of Nagasaki with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a G-7 summit visit next year, media reported on Tuesday.

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Court denies govt aid for Nagasaki A-bomb survivors children

A Japanese court has rejected a damages suit filed by a group of children of Nagasaki atomic bombing survivors seeking eligibility for government support for medical costs, saying hereditary radiation impact has not been proven

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin points to Hiroshima nuclear bomb in chilling chat with Emmanuel Macron

Diplomatic sources say Putin claimed that the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed that is wasn't necessary to attack a major city 'in order to win'

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New bird in the flock

A Kamome (Seagull) Shinkansen train departs from JR Nagasaki Station a little after 6 a.m. on Friday. The train's trip marked the opening of the 66-kilometer-long Nishi-Kyushu line connecting Nagasaki and Takeo Onsen Station in Takeo City, Saga Prefecture. A local express train and the new Shinkansen will carry riders…

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Nagasaki wants nuke-free world on 77th year since A-bombing

NAGASAKI -- Atomic bomb survivors and bereaved families of victims offered prayers for peace on Tuesday during the 77th ceremony marking the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Nagasaki marks A-bombing anniversary amid nuclear war fears

Nagasaki is paying tribute to the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing 77 years ago Tuesday

The Independent UK

An independent Scotland would sign nuclear weapon ban treaty, say Greens

AN independent Scotland would remove nuclear weapons and should immediately sign and ratify the global treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…

The National (Scotland)

Memorials to be held across Scotland to honour those killed in nuclear bombings

MEMORIALS will be held across Scotland in honour of those killed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – still the only use of nuclear weapons…

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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left survivors wrestling with spiritual questions – here's how Buddhists and Catholics responded

It has been over seven decades since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945. The U.S. attack left between 110,000 and 220,000 people dead, and hundreds of thousands more who survived the bomb but suffered its effects – people known in…

The Guardian - UK

US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last

Cameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learned

Daily Mirror

Secret military base missing from Google Earth with 22 of the deadliest nuclear bombs

The airbase is home to 22 US nuclear bombs that are each four times the capacity of those dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945

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Vending machines for frozen meals on the rise in Tokyo

There has been a recent rise of vending machines offering consumers the chance to take home the frozen form of some signature menu items from privately run eateries or chain restaurants, such as chicken wings and Nagasaki champon noodles.

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Ex-scientist fisherman promotes sustainable seafood from remote island

TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki -- Kei Zenimoto works as a single-line fisher in Tsushima, an island city in Nagasaki Prefecture located between Kyushu and South Korea. After a great haul of fish one day last December, he used his smartphone to show what he had caught to a chef at a French…

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Japan mulls extension of coronavirus measures

The government began to consider on Thursday an extension of the quasi-emergency measures in 13 of the 34 prefectures where they are now in effect, including Tokyo, Aichi and Nagasaki, as the quasi-emergency period for the 13 prefectures is supposed to end on Feb. 13.

Daily Record

Scottish Parliament accepts peace tree to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

SNP MSP Bill Kidd, who opposes nuclear weapons, came up with an idea that was accepted by the Parliament

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Nagasaki students pass on A-bomb victim's story, wish to abolish nuclear weapons

NAGASAKI -- For decades after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Nobuko Oka kept silent, traumatized by the horrors of that day. She finally decided to speak up in her 80s in a mission to educate future generations and propel a movement for a world without nuclear weapons.

LiveScience

Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on sidewalks?

The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII left shadows of people on the ground and buildings. Here's why.

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