"I mean to say that, while
Hiroshima was rocked by this tragedy, the whole world is now benefiting from its modern technology," she added.
HIROSHIMA, Oct 20, 2010 (TUR) -- Turkey's Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said on Wednesday that countries that possessed nuclear weapons should destroy them as soon as possible.
Diplomats from the United States, Britain and France have for the first time attended a Japanese event to mark the dropping of an atomic bomb on the city of
Hiroshima.
Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) (TYO: 7261), a Japan-based automaker, has delivered one Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid each to the City of
Hiroshima and
Hiroshima Prefecture government authorities in western Japan.
JOIN THE CLUB In 1950, there were two nuclear powers--the United States, whose Manhattan Project developed the bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, and the Soviet Union, which conducted its first nuclear test in August 1949.
The carmaker has supplied a total of four of the eco-friendly cars in the past to two private firms,
Hiroshima Prefecture and the city of
Hiroshima in line with its plan to lease about 10 units to local authorities and energy-related companies by the end of this year.
Nearly 50 years ago I participated in a wreath-laying at
Hiroshima and saw for myself the inscription on the memorial to the first atom bomb.
The 60th anniversaries of the bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be remembered this month.
When the first bomb hit
Hiroshima three days before, my family was on vacation on a farm in Pennsylvania.
The agreement will enable
Hiroshima Bank's customers to open accounts in Mizuho Securities and place orders for stock trading and other securities transactions with the brokerage through the bank.
August 6th of next year will mark a date of tragic distinction: the 60th anniversary of the bombing of
Hiroshima. Along with the incineration of Nagasaki, the United States' decision to develop and deploy history's most efficient "weapons of mass destruction"--effectively ending World War II and inaugurating the nuclear age--resulted in over 200,000 deaths upon impact, and an estimated 125,000 subsequent fatalities from radiation exposure and related ailments, almost all of them civilian casualties.
and Hitachi Ltd., said it has agreed with NEC and its subsidiary NEC
Hiroshima Ltd.
Hiroshima - a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area