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The view from under the mushroom cloud : the Chugoku Simbun newspaper and the Hiroshima peace media center

Tomomitsu Miyazaki

• International review of the Red Cross, Vol. 97, no. 899, Autumn 2015, p. 527-542 : photogr., carte

English

This article, illustrated with pictures taken by the newspaper's photographer, Yoshito Matushige, will give readers insight into the experience of the Chugoku Shimbun's staff on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It features the stories of three staff members, photographer Yoshito Matsushige, journalist Haruo Oshita, and Yasuo Yamamoto, manager of the paper's stenography department. It also describes the Chugoku Shimbun's efforts to document the experience of Hiroshima's citizens, notably through the establishment of the Hiroshima Peace Media Center, and the newspaper's work towards a future without nuclear weapons.

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• International review of the Red Cross / ICRC
• International review of the Red Cross [Vol. 97, no. 899 (The human cost of nuclear weapons), Autumn 2015] / ICRC