HIROSHIMA A hardcore punk trio was rocking a club here in early April when the golden-haired guitarist wearing a black leather jacket abruptly started delivering a speech following a 12-minute guitar solo.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was named a new co-chair of an atomic bomb survivors’ organization to succeed the late prominent anti-nuclear activist Sunao Tsuboi.
Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki expressed outrage over President Vladimir Putin’s boast of his nation’s nuclear capabilities as Russia went to war against neighboring Ukraine.