CogDogBlog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Kids from Hiroshima by cogdogblog posted 1 Oct ‘08, 10.04am MDT PST on flickr This cute group if school kids today asked me to help them practice their English while I was visiting Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto. It went something like… "Excuse me! Excuse me" (little voices rang out). "Hello, My name is Miko" said one reading [...]
5 Acts (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Brisbane, Australia "Punks" I Heart Hiroshima on MySpace I Heart Hiroshima on The Hype Machine
FWBO & TBMSG News (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Rijumati, an Order Member from Cambridge UK, has been travelling the world since the end of last year, making every effort to avoid flying. His travels have taken him from the UK by cargo ship to Sri Lanka, across India, to Russia and Japan. He has now published part 6 of his travel journal, which includes visits to Hiroshima, Kyoto, Honshu, and elsewhere. His travels are often in the spirit...
s o s (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Two survivors of the US atomic bombing from Hiroshima, Japan spoke yesterday to the University of California Board of Regents, who manage the nations two premiere nuclear weapons laboratories at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. The survivors, known in Japanese as hibakusha, spoke at the UC Irvine campus during the Regent's meeting public comment period to speak of their experiences surviving...
scans_daily: Bringing the crack sin (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Robert Lindsay (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
... "Freedom of the press" and American "democracy", what a joke. References Miles Jr., Rufus E. 1985. Hiroshima: The Strange Myth of Half a Million American Lives Saved . International Security. Vol. 10:2, 121-140
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Maeda Road Co. To Acquire Hiroshima-Based ContractorHIROSHIMA (Nikkei)--Maeda Road Construction Co. (1883), a major road-paving firm, plans to expand its reach by acquiring a Hiroshima Prefecture-based construction company later this month, amid a bleak outlook in demand as central and local governments cut spending on civil-engineering projects, it has been learned.
Potsdam (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The man who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima passed away last week at the age of 92. Paul Warfield Tibbets, ...
Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
" Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops, No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation; Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says Castro Rory Carroll , Latin America correspondent The Guardian , Friday September 5 2008 Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Speakers of Parliament, including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, from G8 countries visited Hiroshima, Japan and laid flowers Tuesday at a memorial to the Hiroshima atomic bomb victims in 1945. It is difficult to discuss the horrific effects of the atomic bombs, inclusing the environmental terror that they inflict, but Japanese victims of the attack are glad that the elected leaders...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
U.S. House speaker paid her respects at Japan's Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The speaker of the US House of Representatives has laid flowers at a Japanese memorial to atom bomb victims. Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is the highest ranking US figure to visit the site in Hiroshima, the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid flowers at a Japanese memorial to atomic bombing victims. Pelosi is the highest-ranking sitting US official to pay respects at the site in Hiroshima, the first city to witness the world's first nuclear attack.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Nancy Pelosi becomes the highest-ranking US official to visit a memorial to 140,000 victims of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
