Rabbit Island animal abuser gets suspended sentence

April 14, 2025April 15, 2025 GetHiroshima 119 Views Crime, Rabbit Island

The 25-year-old man from Otsu City, charged with violating the Animal Welfare Act for torturing rabbits and kicking one to

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82-year-old in trouble for gun-mania

April 14, 2025 GetHiroshima 78 Views Crime

An 82-year-old gun enthusiast has been referred to prosecutors for allegedly possessing a large collection of handguns and live ammunition.

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Man Found Dead in Mikumarikyo Forest Park

April 14, 2025April 15, 2025 GetHiroshima 184 Views Crime

Man Found Dead in Mikumarikyo Forest Park; Police Investigating Suspected Homicide

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Hiroshima Peace Website Hacked, Personal Information Stolen

February 6, 2025 GetHiroshima 679 Views Crime, Hiroshima80

The Hiroshima for Global Peace website has been hacked, and almost 4000 items of personal data, including names, addresses, and

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Onomichi snatch thefts, 2 in one night

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 GetHiroshima 514 Views Crime

Onomichi police are looking for a suspect they believe carried out two snatch thefts in different parts of Onomichi’s shopping district last night, January 28.

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Hiroshima taxi driver robbed at scissorpoint

June 25, 2024June 27, 2024 GetHiroshima 1956 Views Crime

At around 2:20 pm on June 23, a 70-year-old Hiroshima taxi driver was robbed by man who threatened him with

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Knife Attack at Hiroshima A-bomb Dome

March 25, 2024April 12, 2024 GetHiroshima 1674 Views Crime

An 81-year-old man visiting Hiroshima from outside the prefecture was attacked by a man with a knife in front of

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Convenience store knife attack in Asaminami

March 20, 2024April 12, 2024 GetHiroshima 1388 Views Crime

A 76-year-old man was arrested in Nagatsuka in Asaminami yesterday afternoon after attacking two people with a knife in a convenience store.

A group of local BMXers have caused outrage after they spent a few minutes leaping on and off the parapet at the end the West Peace Bridge. The group of 5 or 6 youths were seen to riding up and jumping off the 2.3m arched parapet by a Chugoku Shinbun photographer from the 3rd floor of the newspaper's office at around 5:50pm on July 10. The newspaper says that left the scene after about 5 minutes. The parapet was designed by the late Isamu Noguchi, a world-renowned sculptor, and symbolizes the recovery from the atomic bombing. Some A-bomb survivors have descried the act as "outrageous," and the police and the city have warned that it could have led to an accident. The bridge was built in 1952, 7 years after the A-bombing, and designed by Isamu Noguchi, and was recently repaired. Hiroshi Harada, an 82-year-old A-bomb survivor and former director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, said, "It is located at the entrance to Peace Memorial Park and is a monument that should be carefully protected by the citizens. It is outrageous." While we can understand the anger at this kind of behavior so close to the entrance of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, one wonders if Noguchi he had been told so soon after the A-bombing that in 70 years the youth of Hiroshima would be using memorials as playthings, whether he would have been outraged or encouraged. Source: Chugoku Shinbun

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Outrage at BMXers tricking on the Hiroshima Peace Bridge

July 11, 2022September 19, 2022 GetHiroshima 2441 Views Crime, Peace

Outrage after a group of BMXers were seen tricking on the West Peace Bridge near the entrance to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

60 cannabis plants seized from hidden plot on osaki kamijima

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Cannabis plants seized from Hiroshima island farm, 3 arrested

September 26, 2021October 9, 2021 Paul Walsh 1727 Views Crime

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis on the island of Osaki Kamijima in Hiroshima Prefecture.

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