Goto Izumi’s Deep Hiroshima: Kure
Greetings to you readers of the English language. It’s Goto Izumi, lover of the strange over the pretty. Exhausted Hiroshima’s
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Features
Gokurakuji-yama Hike
Miyajima gets all the attention and Mt Misen all the crowds. However, not far from the ferry port to the
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Hiroshima SUP City
Magic Island’s Ryuji Nishikawa talks about his mission to bring people back to Hiroshima’s waterways.
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A Season of Memory
Autumn takes such abuse as a moth-eaten metaphor for decline. “Knows’t thou not at the fall of the leaf” and so on. Here in Japan, the poets have done no better.
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Peace on Your Wings : Sadako Sasaki Muscial
On a recent visit to Hawaii, I was able to make the final performance of the new original musical “Peace
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Living Large In Limbo: Hiroshima’s Shrouds
“It’s as if the clothes say, ‘See the radiation in my body,’” Michel Aguilera describes the subjects of his most
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Art Aquarium, Prayer of Kingyo
The Art Aquarium has been a huge summer hit in Tokyo over the past few years, attracting a total audience
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Hiroshima 70 Peace Commemorations
Here is a compilation of the various events taking place around Hiroshima to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the A-bombing.
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Reggae In Hiroshima
Reggae probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Hiroshima, but the posters and flyers
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A-bombed tram back on the rails this summer
One of only two of the seventy trams running on the morning of August 6, 1945 to survive the A-bombing
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