G7: Ukrainian President Zelensky arrives in Hiroshima
May 21, 2023, at 02:19 am
Hiroshima: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Hiroshima on Saturday to attend the G7 summit.
G7: Buddhist monk protests in Hiroshima, asks world leaders to shun use of nuclear weapons
May 21, 2023, at 12:24 am
Hiroshima: A Buddhist monk on Friday staged a protest outside the G7 International Media Centre in the Japanese city of Hiroshima and urged world leaders to shun the use of nuclear weapons.
Japan confirms Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s participation in G7 events
May 20, 2023, at 02:38 pm
Hiroshima: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend the G7 Summit in Japan's Hiroshima in person, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has confirmed.
Rebooting memories of life before the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima
Mar 21, 2023, at 10:55 pm
New York: A Japanese initiative to colourize photos of Hiroshima survivors, taken before the war, has been hailed by the UN as a way to breathe new life into conversations about peace, and a world without nuclear weapons.
75 years after the bomb, Hiroshima still chooses ‘reconciliation and hope’
Aug 07, 2020, at 10:30 pm
New York: In a video message delivered to a Peace Memorial Ceremony in Japan on Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has paid tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which devastated the city in 1945.
Aug 07, 2019, at 10:16 am
New York, Aug 7 (IBNS): Paying homage to those who perished as the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as well as the many others whose lives were devastated in the years that followed, UN chief António Guterres on Tuesday underscored their “courage and moral leadership” in reminding the world of “the human cost of nuclear war”.
Aug 07, 2018, at 09:01 am
New York, Aug 7 (IBNS): The world needs the continued moral leadership of the people of Hiroshima, the top United Nations disarmament official said on Monday, commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing that devastated the city while lamenting that after decades of momentum towards a nuclear-free world, “progress has stalled.”
Barack Obama visits Hiroshima, says memory must never fade
May 27, 2016, at 10:46 pm
Hiroshima, May 27 (IBNS) US President Barack Obama, the first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima blast site on Friday, said that the memory of war must never fade, according to reports.
No more Hiroshimas. No more Nagasakis: Ban
Aug 07, 2015, at 02:12 pm
New York, Aug 7 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday renewed his resolve to advance the goal of achieving a world “free of the nuclear shadow,†in a message to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima.