Tag: Hiroshima

  • Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate for poetic fiction, dies

    Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate for poetic fiction, dies

    Tokyo – Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan’s post-war occupation and from parenting a disabled son, has died. He was 88. Oe, who was also an outspoken anti-nuclear and peace activist, died on March 3, his publisher, Kodansha Ltd., said in a statement on Monday.…

  • Japan, other G7 leaders tighten sanctions against Russia

    Japan, other G7 leaders tighten sanctions against Russia

    TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Group of Seven leaders adopted a set of additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine at an online G-7 summit on Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion. The leaders renewed their commitment to “intensify our diplomatic, financial and…

  • Zelensky says grain deal resumption important for ‘whole world’

    Zelensky says grain deal resumption important for ‘whole world’

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday hailed “a significant diplomatic result for our country and the whole world” after Russia rejoined a deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea. Read our live blog to see how all the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris local time (GMT+1). This live page is no…

  • Live: Zelensky says grain deal resumption important for ‘whole world’

    Live: Zelensky says grain deal resumption important for ‘whole world’

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday hailed “a significant diplomatic result for our country and the whole world” after Russia rejoined a deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea. Follow our live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris local time (GMT+1). 10:16pm: Zelensky says grain deal resumption important for ‘whole…

  • Putin’s nuclear threat shakes the world

    Putin’s nuclear threat shakes the world

    Cast: Toshiyuki MimakiHiroshima Survivor, Pavel Podvigresearcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, Pavel Felgenhauermilitary analyst and columnist for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Henrik Nerlundarchitectural historian, Vendela Englund BurnettChairman of the Doctors Against Nuclear Weapons, Inna Sovsun, Member of Parliament Ukraine, Mariana Budjeryn, researcher at Harvard University, Hans KristensenDirector of the Federation of American Scientists,…

  • The hunt for the atomic bomb

    The hunt for the atomic bomb

    In the early 1940s, the top physicists in the United States are called to a remote location in the New Mexico desert to develop a bomb that will put an end to the Nazis and end World War II. The project goes by the code name “Manhattan”. At the secret research base, calculations are made…

  • This week’s editorial: It’s about density

    This week’s editorial: It’s about density

    Too many people and too many animals in areas that are too small will sooner or later again cause viral pandemics. On a knife edgeIn nature, there have always been viruses, but wild animals kept their distance, and the viruses disappeared, the expert Anders Fomsgaard claimed in Politiken last week. He argued that many years…