Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) Aleida Guevara, the oldest daughter of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, offered flowers Thursday at a monument for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima during her first visit there. Read more ...
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Remember the “new” Hiroshima atomic bombing photos that various news sites and blogs reported about last week? Sean L. Malloy, the history professor who publicized the images while promoting the release of his new book, has removed them from his website: Since making these photographs publicly available, I have received reliable proof that several of [...]
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
On August 6th, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States Air Force. The bomb successfully exploded instantly killing about 80,000 people and destroying a majority of the physical structure of the city. Someone with a camera took a series of photographs of the post-bomb carnage. The film exposed by this photographer was brought to a cave outside of town, where...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
It seems that pictures published by Le Monde on May 10, accompanying a story entitled "Hiroshima: what the world never saw," weren't authentic, the paper revealed yesterday.The pictures were likely to have been taken after the 1923 earthquake that devastated...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
You can see them here. There are now some questions about their authenticity. Le Monde has a story. From the website: Mr. Capp was assigned to the occupation forces outside Hiroshima after World War II. According to to Mr. Capp's...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The pictures, which the French paper procured from Stanford University's Hoover Institute and used in a, were of the 1923 earthquake in Kanto.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hiroshima, Japan Hey Everybody! It's Kayla, yup me, Kayla! Anyways, so were currently on the city train and we rode the bullet train before this train. WHOA THE BULLET TRAIN WAS EXTREMELY FAST! Amazing! Well, I'm looking out the window and I see a big river and some buildings, not so fascinating at the moment, but it's cool. ...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hiroshima, Japan Today we took a training in the morning down to Hiroshima to visit the Peace Memorial Museum and the Atomic Bomb Dome. This was quite an overwhelming experience to say the least but amazingingly peaceful now. Later we trained it back to Osaka to visit the Aquarium before catching another train to Kyoto for our tradtional Ryokan experience....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
FUKUI, Fukui Pref. (Kyodo) Pinch-hitter Shinjiro Hiyama hit a game-tying two-run double and Norihiro Akahoshi singled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as the Hanshin Tigers rallied to beat the Hiroshima Carp 5-2 on Thursday.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
KANAZAWA (Kyodo) Takahiro Arai homered and Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi pitched six solid innings Wednesday as the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers beat the Hiroshima Carp 4-2.
井の中の蛙 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as “newly discovered” photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. Over the last few days, after the pictures were reported by HNN, the Huffington Post, and Wired, among others, members of the Japanese studies community took a closer look and began to doubt. [...]
Observing Japan (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
A reader informs me that the Hiroshima pictures mentioned in this post are most likely not pictures of the aftermath of the atomic bombing, but are instead pictures of the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. No less moving, in light of today's news .
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
tags: Birds in the News , BirdNews , ornithology , birds , avian , newsletter Common Pochard, Aythya ferina (Hiroshima, Japan). Image: Bardiac [ larger ]. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
One-time Hiroshima Carp and Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Nate Minchey was back in the country this week in his current capacity as a scout for the Cleveland Indians.
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Today's Choice Links: Gossip columnist debuts on 20/20 , but does she know her chops? How folk in Alabama reacted when they saw a gay couple kissing ; Making a music video using surveillance cameras; A masterful BBC headline ; Never-before-published photographs of Hiroshima ; Kid annoys brass band, but tuba player gets the last word...
