The government is widening hibakusha eligibility to include those who were still in their mothers’ wombs when the radioactive “black rain” fell in the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
A 43-year-old man sentenced to life in prison for killing a 9-year-old girl in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, in 2004, has had his appeal turned down. The Okayama branch of the Hiroshima High Court upheld the ruling on Jan 6 this year by the Okayama District Court against Kunihiko Katsuta who…
NAGASAKI People who experienced the atomic bombing of this city but were denied full state health care benefits bristled at the government’s plan to expand a medical relief program for them.