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Photo: Recognizing Hiroshima anniversary

Juneau residents participate Wednesday in a silent vigil to commemorate the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. The event was sponsored by Juneau Friends Meeting.

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Hiroshima remembered

On any day in Hiroshima, tens of thousands of folded paper...all over the world, arrive daily in Hiroshima as a gesture of support for world peace...to radiation in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. As Sadako lay on her deathbed, she...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080807/nei_20070808099.shtml
Neighbors
Remember Hiroshima

Friday, Aug. 6, is the 59th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Alaskans, citizens of the only country to use nuclear weapons, are invited to reflect on that tragedy and to commit ourselves...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080604/let_letter4.shtml
Opinion
University nuclear conference features Hiroshima survivor

...knows exactly where she was at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. At the time, she was a 13-year-old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan. The government had ordered some houses to be knocked down in order to widen some of the city's streets, and Sasamori...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/042008/loc_270391974.shtml
Biologist tells of disasters Alaska averted

...Next came the bright idea to use them to carve out a harbor near Kotzebue, with an underground blast 20 times the size of Hiroshima's. The plan was not foolproof. Aside from the environmental and human health effects, which weren't totally known at...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/050609/loc_436919047.shtml
'Amour' an emotional tale of enduring love

...Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant.Riva, who is 85, made her first splash as the star of Alain Resnais' 1959 "Hiroshima Mon Amour," while the 82-year-old Trintignant has starred in some 135 films, including such popular classics as "A...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-03-07/amour-emotional-tale-enduring-love
Art
In the stacks: new graphic novels

...soldier who was killed in Iraq when Ichi was very young. But as his grandfather shows him around shrines and war memorials in Hiroshima, Ichiro begins to doubt the glory of war. He feels unsettled and unwelcome in both America (where he and his mom are harassed...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-03/stacks-new-graphic-novels
Art
The participatory photography of Skip Schiel

...For one project, called "Auschwitz to Hiroshima: A Pilgrimage, 1995" Schiel embarked...than 10,000 miles from Auschwitz to Hiroshima with a group of people that numbered...and the Philippines before ending up in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1994, 50 years to the day...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-09-27/participatory-photography-skip-schiel
Art
Chugiak's Kelly Cobb on inter- national pitch

...excited."The U-20 World Cup started August 19 and goes through September 8. Matches are in Miyagi, Kobe, Saitama, Hiroshima and Tokyo. Three matches were scheduled for television viewing. The USA won their first match against Ghana on ESPN3.com...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2012-08-23/chugiaks-kelly-cobb-inter-national-pit
Sports
Around The Bases, No Rain No Gain

...for 3, hitting two of the game's three home runs in the World's 7-0 victory over the USA at Fenway Park. The former Hiroshima Carp infielder, now the Columbus Clippers shortstop, is named the game's MVP.2000 - Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2012-07-11/around-bases-no-rain-no-gain
Sports

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