Economic deals top India premier's Japan visit Oct 21, 2008
Instead, the Japanese government will ask for understanding from India for Japan's public sensitivity to nuclear issues because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 at the end of World War II.. Today in Asia - Pacific. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Hiroshima: Peacerises from the ashes Oct 19, 2008
Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, which killed an estimated 80,000 people, closing the chapter on the second World War. Walking through the city's streets, it's a bit eerie to think about what happened here and how the city has rebuilt. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Case Against Barack Obama: Part 1 Oct 19, 2008
The invasion never occurred because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which military historians believe saved at least 1 million lives. What is Sharpeville. (Human Events Online)
China pushes contact with Japanese local gov't Oct 18, 2008
BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Friday called for enhanced cooperation between local governments of China and Japan when meeting with Nagasaki Prefecture governor Kaneko Genjiro ... Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Kaneko Genjiro (L), Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture governor, in Beijing, capital of China, on Oct. 17, 2008. (Xinhuanet, China)
Asia-Pacific Oct 16, 2008
com's Dara Brown looks at the aftermath of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Produced by Kevin Flynn and John Asterita. (MSNBC -- International)
Who is a terrorist? Oct 12, 2008
The Allies justified the atom-bombing of the civilian centres of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the grounds that the alternative to ending World War II - an infantry invasion of Japan - would have cost even more lives. Justifiable act of war, or a terrorist attack on an unprecedented - and still unsurpassed - scale. (India Times, India)
• Tempting tempura Oct 8, 2008
Tempting tempura By Melissa DavlinTimes-News writer I first tried this dish while studying abroad in Nagasaki, Japan. Kabocha, or Japanese green pumpkin, is a traditional ingredient in tempura, which is served as an appetizer, side dish and on noodles or rice. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
* Aso elected Japanese prime minister Sep 25, 2008
At the same time, Nakagawa called the US atomic attack on Nagasaki a crime. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Aso faces uphill battle to turn round economy Sep 24, 2008
At the same time, Mr Nakagawa called the US atomic attack on Nagasaki "a crime". Associated Press, Agence France-Presse. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Britain 'to fall into recession' Sep 23, 2008
1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki. Hollywood women dress down. (Yahoo News -- Global Economy)
Court Historian Sep 20, 2008
We know that atomic warfare as practiced at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to say nothing of Dresden s incineration, meets his full approval: Fortunately, he smugly asserts, the English-speaking peoples wars are fought by professional soldiers under the direction of elected politicians, with intellectuals having very little to do with them until they are safely won, after which they can criticize with hindsight and moral superiority. Pius XII, Admiral William Leahy, Bishop Fulton Sheen, and British... (The American Conservative)
D. B. Whitehead, followed by in order by five other members of the Keystone Heights AMVETS Ceremonial Team, Post 86, solemnly places on the table during the Table Ceremony, the hat of each branch of the U.S. Military beginning with the Merchant Marines, established June 12, 1775; the U.S. Army, established June 14, 1775; the U.S. Navy, established Oct. 13, 1775; the U.S. Marines, established Nov. 10, 1775; the U.S. Coast Guard, established Aug. 4, 1790 and the U.S. Air Force, established Sept. 18, 1947. MICHAEL MITSEFF/ Lake City Reporter Sep 20, 2008
We were being held across the bay from Nagasaki, working in a condemned mine, Pepper said, envisioning the day as if he was still there. The day they dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, we were deep in the mine and when we came out, all of us saw the mushroom cloud but we didnt know what it was. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
Yen shows muscle as risk aversion accelerates Sep 16, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Skip directly to: Search Box, , , Text Version. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Daniel D. Ortman Sep 10, 2008
While on Tinian Island, Dan witnessed the takeoffs of the B-29 bombers Enola Gay and Bockscar, on their way to deliver the atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. After the war, Dan returned to Coos Bay and married Charlotte I. Betts. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
WWII VETERANS: Kids keep reunions, memories alive Sep 8, 2008
3 million, displaced half the population and did vastly more damage than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. Marylou Bennett, whose uncle was lost, says it best. (USA Today)
If it's in terminal gridlock, then it must be Japan Sep 6, 2008
That's an understatement almost worthy of Emperor Hirohito's remark after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." In Japan, it takes impossibly long to decide on anything, if anything is, in fact, ever decided at all. The political system suffers from terminal gridlock. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Urban air pollution 'more dangerous than Chernobyl' Sep 5, 2008
Dr Smith also calculated long-term mortality rates among survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and compared them with obesity and active smoking. "The immediate effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs led to approximately 210,000 deaths in the two cities. However, radiation exposures experienced by the most exposed group of survivors led to an average loss of life expectancy significantly lower than that caused by severe obesity or active smoking," the report states. (Yahoo News -- Pollution)
Pelosi visits Hiroshima memorial Sep 3, 2008
Three days later, a second nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people ... HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. (BBC News -- Americas)
U.S. President Harry S. Truman Sep 3, 2008
Truman: The man who authorized the use of the Atom-Bomb. Truman was a complex man and the man that will be judged by time for using Nuclear weapons "The Manhattan Project" for the first time. (Suite101.com)
US house speaker visits Hiroshima A-bomb memorial Sep 2, 2008
Three days later on Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II.. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Pelosi visits memorial in Hiroshima Sep 2, 2008
Three days later on Aug. 9, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people ... com's Dara Brown looks back at the devastating aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (MSNBC -- International)
Atomic Bomb Effect Results In Adult-onset Thyroid Cancer Identified Aug 30, 2008
29, 2008) Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers ... 13, 2008) Radiation exposure before birth or during early childhood increased the risk of adult solid cancers, according to a study of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. (Science Daily)
Researchers discover atomic bomb effect results in adult-onset thyroid cancer Aug 29, 2008
PHILADELPHIA Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers. In the September 1, 2008, issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, the scientists report that subjects who lived close to the blast sites, were comparably young at the time, and developed the cancer quickly once they... (EurekAlert!)
All Nippon Air Aims to Boost Seat Occupancy With Expanded Hub Connections Aug 29, 2008
ANA, Japan's biggest domestic airline, will cut its route between Nagasaki and Okinawa in February, it said earlier this month. It also cut its Sapporo to Matsuyama and Fukuoka to Sendai flights, which were flying less than 70 percent full last fiscal year. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
U.S., Japan, Europe planned dollar rescue Aug 28, 2008
If downside risks to the dollar emerge from here on, the market will keep in mind the possibility of similar action by authorities, said Takahide Nagasaki, chief foreign exchange strategist for Daiwa Securities SMBC.. The Nikkei report had little immediate impact on currencies, since the dollar has already rebounded 10 per cent from a record low it struck against a basket of major currencies in March, analysts said. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Hanford nuclear reactor is designated national landmark Aug 26, 2008
The B Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River, which produced the plutonium used in the nuclear bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, Japan in World War II, has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The U.S. Interior Dept. made the announcement at the 64-year-old building, which made the plutonium used in most of the U.S. s nuclear arsenal. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
* Struggling on in times of hardship Aug 26, 2008
In 1944, I was strafed by machine gun fire from US military aircraft in Nagasaki, Japan ... On Aug. 15 the next year, in a store in Nagasaki, I heard the Japanese emperor speak on the radio, saying that Japan had no choice but to accept the unacceptable and surrender unconditionally ... Japan lost millions of people in that long war and the entire country was scorched by incessant Allied bombing, followed by the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Albert Einstein's Error Aug 23, 2008
The devastating effects, not just on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the whole world was far reaching and still present over sixty years later. Einstein later said it writing the first letter was the single greatest mistake of his life. (Suite101.com)
An American face to the tragedy of Hiroshima Aug 17, 2008
Everyone knows what followed: Nagasaki (Aug. 9), VJ Day (Aug. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Announcing: Strategic Command WWII Pacific Theater Aug 16, 2008
To add historical flavor and replayability, over 150 different in-game events are now depicted including the Doolittle Raid, Mirill's Marauders, Japanese Midget Sub attacks on Pearl Harbor and even the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... 28 countries (5 major and 23 minor belligerents) 20 unit types with up to 30 different unit characteristics Over 150 different in-game events including the Doolittle Raid, Merill's Marauders, Japanese Midget Submarine attacks on Pearl... (IGN PC Games)
Peace prevails at festival Aug 15, 2008
"Today is the anniversary of when the atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, Japan. It is a time of solemn remembrance," said Deborah Moldow, WPPS representative to the United Nations before the moment of silence at noon. "May peace prevail on Earth" is the five-word prayer that has become the resounding message of the WPPS. In the wake of the pain and destruction of war, Moldow said, Masahisa Goi created the prayer in 1954. (Henrietta Post, NY)
U.S. Navy Senior Radarman Charles E. Tooley during his service days of World War II. Tooley and U.S. Marines Platoon Sgt. Thomas A. Lowder recalled their participation in the Pacific Theater. COURTESY PHOTO Aug 14, 2008
6) and Nagasaki (Aug ... Lowder, a veteran of the PTO, said he believed that if it wasnt for the two atomic bombs that had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that he and millions of other soldiers would have died in the inevitable invasion of Japans homeland. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
Frost: Learning from the past Aug 14, 2008
Three days later, America dropped the second A-bomb on Nagasaki ... Nor did they report any of the commemorative protests although the Globe did run an AP story, Nagasaki mayor urges nuclear weapons ban, on Aug. 9 ... Gulf News, a United Arab Emirates newspaper, ran a story on Aug. 5 entitled, Remembering a man-made inferno, and other news outlets around the world including Fox News did remind readers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Diary of Tojo details hope for World War II to go on Aug 13, 2008
TOKYO - Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after US atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being "frightened," a newly released diary reveals ... The stridency of the writings is remarkable considering they were penned just days after the US atomic bombs incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing some 200,000 people and posing the threat of the complete destruction of Japan. (Boston Globe)
Obituary: Amerine loved flying, turkeys, GOP Aug 13, 2008
During the war, he served in a squadron that took before and after photographs of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also served during the Korean War. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Diary Shows Tojo Resisted Surrender Till End Aug 12, 2008
TOKYO -- Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being "frightened," a newly released diary reveals ... The stridency of the writings is remarkable considering they were penned just days after the U.S. atomic bombs incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing some 200,000 people and posing the threat of the complete destruction of Japan ... On Aug. 10 _ the day after the... (Newsmax)
Former Hiroshima mayor, Utah vet fight nuclear weapons Aug 11, 2008
Three days later, the U.S. dropped another bomb, this one on Nagasaki, Japan. But the aftermath of that blast turned both men into allies in the quest to stop nuclear war. (Daily Herald)
Japan marks anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb Aug 10, 2008
The mayor of Hiroshima also vowed to do more to help survivors still suffering the physical and mental after-effects of the 1945 attack by the United States in the final days of World War Two, which was followed a few days later by a nuclear attack on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki. The average age of survivors is over 75 and Akiba said he would launch a survey into the emotional damage they suffered. (Reuters UK)
Public concerns still legitimate Aug 10, 2008
Between nuclear bombs and nuclear power generation, serious problems remain for ordinary people everywhere (Malaysia Star)
* Nagasaki remembers atomic bombing Aug 10, 2008
Nagasaki remembers atomic bombing ... Doves fly around the monument at the Peace Park during the memorial ceremony yesterday for the atomic bomb victims in Nagasaki, Japan ... Nagasakis mayor commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the worlds second atomic bomb attack yesterday with a call for stricter measures against North Korea, Pakistan and Israel for their possession of nuclear weapons. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Marine vet from Rochester attends peace lantern ceremony, recalls ... Aug 9, 2008
The ceremony commemorates the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ... And attending the lantern ceremony brought him full circle; Miller was among the first Americans to see Nagasaki after the bombing ... Miller and fellow Marines landed at Nagasaki on Sept. 21, 1945, about six weeks after the bomb was dropped on Aug. 9. (Post-Bulletin)
Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb victims Aug 9, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with a solemn ceremony on Saturday and a call for world powers to abandon their nuclear weapons ... "The United States and Russia must take the lead in striving to abolish nuclear weapons," Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue said at the gathering, which included Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ... Nagasaki was bombed by the United States on August 9, 1945, three days after the western city of Hiroshima, where the blast... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Nagasaki remembers bomb Aug 9, 2008
Nagasaki on Saturday demanded North Korea fully abandon nuclear weapons, while urging India to sign nuclear treaties, as the Japanese city marked 63 years since it was flattened by an atomic bomb ... "As the victim of nuclear bombs, our country has a duty and responsibility for taking the initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons," Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue told the ceremony. (iAfrica.com)
The 63rd Remembrance Day of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Aug 9, 2008
As if that was not enough, on 9th August, "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 80,000 people and injuring innumerable people ... I ll answer: From the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan was rebuilt. (Newstrack India)
U.S. Nuke Sub Leaked Radiation, Japan Says Aug 8, 2008
The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine La Jolla enters the U.S. naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Aug. 4, 2008 after another U.S. nuclear-powered sub, USS Houston, was found to have leaked a small amount of radiation at the port in March. (AP). (CBS News -- US)
Hiroshima mayor urges nuclear ban Aug 7, 2008
In the first use of nuclear weapons, the United States bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 63 years ago ... Three days later, on Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people ... com's Dara Brown looks back at the devastating aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (MSNBC -- International)
V-J Day Parade this weekend in Seymour Aug 7, 2008
In the days following Japans refusal to surrender, Truman authorized the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. The formal Japanese signing of the terms of surrender took place on board the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, however Emperor Hirohito officially announced the acceptance of the terms of the Potsdam Declaration via radio broadcast on Aug. 15, followed by a message sent to President Truman, which was... (Brownstown Jackson County Banner, IN)
Hiroshima marks bomb anniversary with hope for US change on nukes Aug 6, 2008
Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, the United States dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, which killed another 70,000 people in the southern port city ... Dozens of atomic bomb survivors and activists gathered in Nagasaki this week to protest against the arrival of a US nuclear-powered submarine, just days after it emerged another vessel may have leaked a small amount of radiation earlier this year. (Yahoo! Asia News)
US Submarine Radiation Leak Raises Concern in Japan Aug 4, 2008
The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki came under nuclear attack from the United States at the end of World War Two in August 1945. DRY DOCK. (Planet Ark, United States)
Japan Warned Of Nuclear Leak From U.S. Sub Aug 3, 2008
The U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killed at least 200,000 people. News of the incident also comes just weeks ahead of the controversial arrival of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington to be based in Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo. (CBS News)
* US nuclear sub may have leaked in Japan Aug 3, 2008
The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killed at least 200,000. In Honolulu, US Pacific Fleet spokesman Captain Scott Gureck said on Friday that the total amount of radioactivity released into the environment from the USS Houston at each stop was less than one half a microcurie X a negligible amount equivalent to the radioactivity of a 22kg bag of fertilizer. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Japan Says No Health Risk Posed by U.S. Navy Submarine's Radiation Leak Aug 3, 2008
The ministry yesterday notified local governments, including Nagasaki and Okinawa prefectures and the port city of Sasebo, of the information received from the U.S. a day earlier, it said ... The Houston visited Sasebo in Nagasaki and Uruma, a port in Okinawa, during March and April, according to Jiji. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Living through the age of denial Aug 2, 2008
I was born, after all, just a year and a few weeks before the United States atomically incinerated Hiroshima and then followed up by atomically obliterating the city of Nagasaki, and World War II ended. Victory arrived, but amid scenes of planetary carnage, genocide, and devastation on a scale and over an expanse previously unimaginable. (Asia Times Online)
Japan told of US nuclear sub leak fears Aug 2, 2008
The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killed at least 200,000 people. The Foreign Ministry acknowledged that it was told of the leak by the US Navy but waited a day to announce it because the amount was negligible. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
LETTERS: NCT, July 26, 2008 Jul 27, 2008
We merely create a firestorm in Dresden and Tokyo and anihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not nearly as bad. (North County Times)
Milton Zaslow; cryptologist, ranking NSA official Jul 26, 2008
His unit was among the first to enter Nagasaki after an atom bomb was dropped there, and it stayed to help with reconstruction. After World War II, he transferred to the Army Security Agency, an NSA precursor. (Boston Globe)
From horror to art: re-creating one 'beautiful' atomic bomb Jul 26, 2008
Robert Wilhite has reproduced "Fat Man," the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, 63 years ago. The devastation from that blast - coupled with that from another bomb dropped a few days earlier over Hiroshima - prompted Japan to surrender, ending World War II.. (Boston Globe)
California vet pays tribute to Chippewa Falls man killed in WWII Jul 25, 2008
After the war s end, Erickson was sent to a communications office in Nagasaki, Japan, just weeks after the second U.S. nuclear blast leveled the city on Aug. 9, 1945, that led to the Japanese surrender. We all thought we d be sterile from the residual radiation, he said. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Duplicity without borders Jul 23, 2008
Its people are impoverished and its instability may well ignite the first use of nuclear weaponry since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and spark a global war to end all wars. Does it have to be this way. (Asia Times Online)
Manhattan Project Reactor Nears Landmark Status Jul 23, 2008
In short order, the reactor produced plutonium for the first man-made nuclear blast, the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. The government shut down B Reactor in 1968 and decommissioned it. (CBS News -- US)
Yen Sales by Tokyo Individual Investors Seeking Yield Highest Since August Jul 16, 2008
The BOJ may keep rates on hold at least until the first quarter, Daiwa Securities SMBC's Nagasaki said. The exchange's data signals Japan's individual investors may be resuming carry trades after reducing their positions as some higher-yielding currencies depreciated in the past year due to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Our View: We should pay heed to what Iraqs leaders want Jul 15, 2008
Not many of the so called world powers learned as much from Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Japan wisely did. So I won't say we might not get caught with our guard down again, but I bet the retalitory attack is gonna be the best fireworks show you ever saw in your lifetime. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Blissful ignorance Jul 14, 2008
On Aug 6, 1945, the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, followed by another on Nagasaki three days later. The tenacious Japanese surrendered, and eventually British soldiers turned up in Raub town. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
