'THE HIROSHIMA MEN' IS A REMINDER OF THE HORRIFIC HUMAN COSTS OF ATOMIC ATTACK - NEW YORK

'THE HIROSHIMA MEN' IS A REMINDER OF THE HORRIFIC HUMAN COSTS OF ATOMIC ATTACK - NEW YORK

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NEW YORK

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged the U.S. government’s version of its atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, showing the human consequences were far more horrific and extensive than the American public had been told.

Hersey’s 30,000-word piece for The New Yorker magazine focused on a few of the thousands of survivors who fell ill, and often died, from the lingering effects of radiation long after the bomb’s initial impact killed tens of thousands of Japanese men, women and children.

Hersey is among diverse group of men author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles in his new book, “The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It.” MacGregor earlier wrote “Checkpoint Charlie,” an acclaimed history of Cold War Berlin, as well as “The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II.”

With the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack approaching next month, “The Hiroshima Men” is a potent reminder of the extreme human costs that were wrought by the first atomic weapon employed during warfare.

By profiling some key players, MacGregor pulls readers into their personal stories with visually enticing description and lively dialogue.

One was pilot Paul Tibbetts, Jr., who fell in love with flying at age 12 when he rode in an old biplane that took off from a horse racing track outside Miami. He named the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that he was flying when it dropped the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, for his mother, Enola Gay.

Another profile is of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant scientific theorist who inspired a team testing the atomic bomb at a secret research laboratory in rural New Mexico.

There's also Maj. Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold, who led the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II and understood what could be achieved with the faster long-range B-29 bomber, which could travel farther and fly much higher than the popular B-17 that had been used on Europe.

MacGregor also introduces us to Senkichi Awaya, the mayor of Hiroshima, a city founded in the late 1580s by a powerful warlord who built a castle headquarters on the shores of a strategically located bay.

There are many more.

The most powerful sections of the book come toward the end, when MacGregor describes the ghastly aftermath of the bombing — a gruesome hellscape littered with charred bodies and stunned survivors with skin dangling from their bodies and eyes hanging from the sockets.

He then invites readers to reflect on the event’s profound costs:

“I hope, looking right across the experience of this terrifying and cataclysmic event, that you, the reader, can judge for yourself whether this journey through the experiences of a city mayor, a bomber pilot, an Army general and an award-winning journalist, who all were intimately connected to Hiroshima, was worth it.”

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AFGHAN MOMS SMASHING JAPAN'S LANGUAGE BARRIER FOR SAKE OF KIDS - CHIBA JAPAN

AFGHAN MOMS SMASHING JAPAN'S LANGUAGE BARRIER FOR SAKE OF KIDS - CHIBA JAPAN

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CHIBA

A long-term Afghan resident of Japan has set up a free language school to help her more newly arrived countrywomen stay connected with their children, who now prefer to converse in Japanese rather than their ancestral language.

With nearly four decades of experience as an interpreter in legal proceedings, Sedeka Eto has established the school to support Afghan mothers who fear their children, born or raised in Japan, are becoming increasingly distant.

"While children learn to speak Japanese at school, mothers remain unable to understand it. Children then forget the Afghan language," said Eto, 67, who heads the nonprofit association Eagle Afghan for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan.

Chiba, which borders Tokyo, is home to approximately 40 percent of some 6,000 Afghan residents in Japan, many of whom fled to the country as refugees after the Taliban regained control in 2021.

Eto's school was established in 2023 via the nonprofit and holds classes every Saturday. More than 120 Afghans are registered and learn Japanese there.

Eto came to Japan from Afghanistan in 1983 and married a Japanese man. Working as a legal interpreter, she witnessed interrogations and court proceedings and became aware of an increase in shoplifting and other crimes committed by foreign youth.

Communication between Afghan parents and their children can be limited to simple Japanese. A mother with five children of primary and middle school age reports that her children speak to each other in Japanese, making it impossible for her to understand them.

Children are unable to make themselves understood when they talk to their parents about problems at school and other complex issues, while many mothers say they are also unable to engage at parent-teacher conferences.

As a result, Eto believes parents and children can become estranged, and such alienation leads some juveniles to crime.

There are also cases in which children, when scolded by their fathers or older brothers in the Afghan language, do not understand and are beaten for not listening, Eto said.

"I thought it was imperative that they be able to communicate in the same language," said Eto of her decision to open the language school.

However, it is not easy for Afghan women to attend because they are customarily prohibited from going out alone -- an act seen as neglecting their responsibilities as mothers. Nonetheless, many find ways to do so.

Despite their husbands' opposition, the women earnestly study Japanese, stopping what they are doing to focus on their work, even while looking after their children. A childcare space with Japanese staff is also provided during class.

A 45-year-old woman who attends the class came to Japan in December 2022 due to deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan. "I felt like I was dead inside because I couldn't speak Japanese," she said.

"My husband tells me to just study with my smartphone. But studying while talking with a teacher is completely different. At home, I need to do the housework as well," she said.

In Afghanistan, the woman had to drop out of junior high school. She said that the experience of being taught in a classroom with a blackboard made her happy and improved her mental state.

Eto said that other students say they feel empowered because they can now talk to teachers from their children's schools or ride buses or trains by themselves. Instead of being financially dependent on their husbands, more and more women have expressed a desire to study further and work outside the home.

Many of the women spend the week counting down the days to the class. It is a day when they can learn Japanese, share their concerns with their peers and socialize.

"I can't wait for Saturdays to come," one woman said.

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RUBIO SAYS JAPAN DEFENSE SPENDING HIKE LESS ABOUT MONEY, MORE ABOUT CAPABILITIES

RUBIO SAYS JAPAN DEFENSE SPENDING HIKE LESS ABOUT MONEY, MORE ABOUT CAPABILITIES 

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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio hinted Friday that while Washington is asking Japan to boost its defense spending, the thinking behind the push is likely to align with the views of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Asked during a briefing in Malaysia for his thoughts on reports that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is pressuring Japan to ramp up its defense budget to as much as 5% of its gross domestic product (GDP), Rubio refuted the characterization of this as a “demand.”

“We've encouraged them to invest in certain capabilities,” he said after the conclusion of Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related meetings. “It's less to do with the amount of money and more to do about certain things they can do.”

These comments echoed the view of Ishiba, who has repeatedly said that Japan will not be told how much to spend, and that what is most important is the substance of strengthened defense capabilities — not arbitrary figures.

“At the end of the day, we are in agreement with Japan on collective self-defense, on the ability to come to each other's aid in a time of conflict or in a time of danger,” Rubio said. “We understand that there are dynamics, constitutional and legal, that limit their ability to invest in certain things versus other things, but we have a very close relationship with Japan, very close."

Last month, the Pentagon told The Japan Times that it had made the 5% of GDP on defense a “global standard” for Japan and other U.S. allies, in the first official confirmation that Washington is asking Tokyo to pump up its defense budget even further.

Japan has denied that a specific figure has ever been broached, but Trump in April called the two countries’ alliance “one-sided” — remarks that echoed views from his first term, when he demanded Tokyo cough up more cash or risk the removal of U.S. troops.

Ostensibly pacifist Japan has in recent years undertaken a dramatic transformation of its security policy, including a five-year plan to ramp up defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2027.

But pouring even more cash into defense coffers would come with significant political costs as the government focuses on domestic economic priorities amid growing uncertainty over how to secure funds.

Japan is currently getting far less bang for its buck as inflation and the yen’s diminishing value erode its plans for the country’s largest military buildup in postwar history.

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said in April that defense spending was within striking distance of the 2% target, at 1.8% of GDP.

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PROMINENT POLITICAL SPEAKERS STEP UP FOR CONDIDATES AHEAD OF JULY 20 ELECTION - JAPAN

PROMINENT POLITICAL SPEAKERS STEP UP FOR CONDIDATES AHEAD OF JULY 20 ELECTION - JAPAN

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With a little over a week remaining until the July 20 Upper House election, political heavyweights from both ruling and opposition parties are crisscrossing the country in a final push to boost the standing of candidates in tight races.

Prominent speakers are drawing crowds and grabbing headlines with an intensity that has sparked criticism from within their own parties.

“It’s clearly a tough battle, but I believe we’ll win in the end,” said agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) during a stump speech in the city of Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday.

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81-YEAR-OLD WOMAN APPARENTLY KILLED BY BEAR IN HER HOME IN IWATE PREFECTURE - IWATE JAPAN

81-YEAR-OLD WOMAN APPARENTLY KILLED BY BEAR IN HER HOME IN IWATE PREFECTURE - IWATE JAPAN

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IWATE

An 81-year-old woman was found dead in her home in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday. Police said she was apparently killed by a bear.

According to police, Seiko Takahashi was found in the living room by her son when he came to visit her at around 7:40 a.m., TV Asahi reported. He called police. First responders rushed to the home, but she was declared dead at the scene.

Police said Takahashi had claw marks on her body, indicating she was likely mauled by an animal. Furthermore, they found strands of bear fur and what appeared to be an animal’s footprints inside the house.

Police said there have been at least nine reports recently of a bear intruding into homes and storage sheds in the neighborhood and eating rice.

A bear was seen hear Takahashi's home at around 7 p.m. on Friday night. Police have set up bear traps and are urging residents to refrain from going out unless necessary.

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BOY WITH MEASLES VISITED OSAKA EXPO; OFFICIALS URGE CAUTION - OSAKA JAPAN

BOY WITH MEASLES VISITED OSAKA EXPO; OFFICIALS URGE CAUTION - OSAKA JAPAN 

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OSAKA

A boy from Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo who tested positive for measles visited the World Exposition in Osaka on June 21, local governments said Saturday, urging other visitors to exercise caution due to possible exposure.

The local governments said the boy, identified only as being between the ages of 10 and 19, may have come into contact with an unspecified number of people at the venue. He was there from around 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., visiting at least eight pavilions, including those of the European Union and Cambodia.

Visitors arriving by private car have been encouraged to park at one of three designated lots and take shuttle buses to the venue. The boy boarded a shuttle around 8 a.m. and again for his return trip, traveling to and from Sakai near Osaka.

The boy developed symptoms, including a fever, on the same day. He visited a medical facility and tested positive on Thursday.

As the measles virus is believed to survive in the air for no more than two hours, there is no longer any risk of infection for those using the facilities the boy visited, according to the Osaka prefectural government.

The incubation period for measles is typically 10 to 12 days, but can extend up to 21 days. Authorities advise those who may have been exposed to monitor their health for three weeks after potential contact, the government said.

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JAPAN RAILWAY - AFFILIATED TOKYO SHOPPING CENTERS ISSUE WARNING OVER POINT CARD SCAM - TOKYO JAPAN

JAPAN RAILWAY - AFFILIATED TOKYO SHOPPING CENTERS ISSUE WARNING OVER POINT CARD SCAM - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

For a while there, “Everything lasts forever on the internet” looked like it was going to become common sense. However, as time has gone by, we’ve learned that that’s not always true. Online permeance only extends so far as the constancy of server and domain maintenance, which brings us to a little problem involving East Japan Railway Company, or JR East.

Like a lot of rail companies in Japan, JR has its fingers in a lot of non-train pies too. For example, if you’ve spent much time in Tokyo you might have spotted the Atre shopping centers in neighborhoods like Akihabara, Ueno, Shinagawa, and Ebisu. Filled with retail stores, sit-down restaurants, and takeaway food stands, Atre shopping centers are always attached to train stations, because Atre is owned and operated by JR East.

Almost every shopping center in Japan has some kind of customer loyalty program, and Atre is no exception. Up until the end of February 2016, shoppers and diners could earn Atre Club points with each purchase and redeem them for gift certificates and other items through the service’s website. Some Atre Cards, as the point cards were called, even had a QR code on the back that you could scan to access the site more easily.

Atre Club has since been folded into JR East’s broader JRE Point program, with all Atre Club points being transferred over. The old Atre Cards are still usable, too. Show it when making purchases at Atre, and the points will go right into your JRE Point total. JR and Atre have put out a warning, though, that while the old Atre Cards themselves are still good, using their QR codes could result in something very, very bad.

Why? Because after JR shut down the Atre Club Point program, they also shuttered its website, and eventually abandoned control of its domain, atre-club.jp. Scanning the QR code on the back of the Atre Card, though, will still try to access it, which is a problem because the domain has since been acquired by scam artists, and the website is unsafe to use, presumably due to malware, phishing prompts, or other aspects targeting users’ data privacy and financial security.

The problem came to light last week and affects Atre Cards issued between October of 2013 and February of 2016. Atre put out a statement cautioning cardholders to not scan their QR codes or access atre-club.jp, reminding them that their loyalty program accounts are now managed through the JRE Point website. In a follow-up, Atre said that as of July 1 the scam site is no longer accessible, but continued avoidance of scanning the QR code or visiting atre-club.jp is recommended.

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70 % OF SHOPS HIT BY NATO QUAKE SEE NO PROSPECTS OF REBUILDING - KANAZAWA JAPAN

70 % OF SHOPS HIT BY NATO QUAKE SEE NO PROSPECTS OF REBUILDING - KANAZAWA JAPAN

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KANAZAWA

Seventy percent of shops and restaurants currently operating from temporary facilities in the earthquake-hit Noto Peninsula in central Japan have no prospects of returning to their original locations, a Kyodo News survey showed.

Nearly half of the 46 businesses facing difficulties cited a lack of funding as the main obstacle, amid falling customer numbers and sales following the magnitude-7.6 quake that struck Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year's Day last year.

The survey was based on interviews conducted in early June with 64 of some 70 businesses operating in 15 makeshift spaces or buildings offered rent-free in the region. More than 40 percent of the respondents saw their shops completely destroyed in the disaster.

Of the respondents, 40 said their income fell, with 33 of them citing fewer customers. Asked about their current concerns, 44 cited declines in customers and revenues, while 23 were worried about securing funds for restarting.

Retsuko Hirata, who runs a shop selling Japanese sake and clothing items at an arcade in Wajima, said revenue has dropped by 20 percent from before the quake.

"I am worried whether I can carry on my business as the number of tourists has dropped and the population continues to decline," she said.

The region facing the Sea of Japan has been a popular tourist destination for fresh seafood, hot spring spas and traditional artwork, including lacquerware.

The quake claimed more than 600 lives, including those who died from related health issues afterward, and caused over 160,000 houses to fully or partially collapse across Ishikawa, Niigata, Toyama and Fukui prefectures.

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IN REVERSAL, JAPAN NOW WANTS RICE FARMERS TO PRODUCE MORE. WILL IT WORK ? - JOETSU, NIIGATA

IN REVERSAL, JAPAN NOW WANTS RICE FARMERS TO PRODUCE MORE. WILL IT WORK ? - JOETSU, NIIGATA

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JOETSU, Niigata

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively high and steady. 

Now, under an ambitious agricultural policy announced this year, Tokyo is preparing for a reversal, envisaging a future of bountiful output that would secure the country's food security without sending prices into freefall and hurting its politically influential farmers.

The new direction has taken on an unexpected urgency as Japanese grapple with a shortage of the all-important staple, which has prompted a historic spike in prices, a flood of imports, and interest from President Donald Trump, who has renewed pressure on Japan to buy U.S. rice as part of the allies' elusive trade deal. 

It is a policy that many farmers like Kazuhachi Hosaka welcome in principle, but with trepidation because questions over how it would work in practice remain unanswered. The government is aiming to complete a roadmap by the middle of next year.

"We'd want the government to make sure there's some kind of a safety net for producers," Hosaka said at his farm in the northern prefecture of Niigata.

"It's easy enough to switch rice for feed or processed foods to staple rice. But tilling land for new paddies or switching from wheat or soybeans would require labour, machinery and all kinds of investments."

This year, Hosaka allocated all but 10 hectares (25 acres) of his 180-hectare land for staple rice, reducing feed-use rice by 20 hectares given the attractive prices. But he worries that prices could plunge if Japan's overall production goes unchecked under the new policy, set to be implemented from the 2027 crop year.

"I do feel conflicted," Hosaka said about the doubling of retail rice prices to above 4,000 yen for a 5kg bag this year in what has turned into a national crisis. 

"It's important that rice prices settle at levels acceptable to both producers and consumers," he said.

Hosaka hopes prices would stabilise around 3,000 to 3,500 yen - a level Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba also hopes would be palatable for voters. Supermarket prices fell for a fifth straight week, to 3,801 yen in the seven days to June 22, but were still 70% higher than the same period last year.

NATIONAL CRISIS

For Japanese people, rice is more than just a staple food.

Cultivated in the country for more than 2,000 years, rice is considered sacred in the indigenous Shinto religion and is deeply ingrained in local tradition and culture. The Japanese are famously proud of their short-grain Japonica variety, protecting the market with trade barriers.

So when rice turned into a luxury item this year, consumers fumed and policymakers - facing imminent elections - worried. 

With an eye on voters ahead of an upper house election on July 20, the government has been releasing emergency rice from its stockpile to sell for about 2,000 yen per 5 kg. 

Farmers - also traditionally an important voting bloc for Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party - were told it was a dire but necessary move to protect Japan's food security and prevent consumers from switching permanently away from homegrown rice.

But for most of the past 50 years, Japan has poured its energy into doing the opposite: providing subsidies to farmers to grow crops other than staple rice so as to prevent oversupply and a fall in prices.

That system backfired last year when the farm ministry misread supply from the heat-damaged 2023 harvest, resulting in a severe shortage in August. The ensuing surge in prices made Japan an anomaly against a fall in global prices, and exposed the risks of its approach.

The new policy, if successful, would prevent a recurrence by allocating 350,000 tons of rice for export in 2030 - an eight-fold jump from 45,000 tons last year - that could be redirected to the domestic market in the event of a shortage, the government says.

Some agricultural experts say the policy is unrealistic.

The idea of selling expensive Japanese rice abroad is counterintuitive, especially when even Japan is importing record amounts of the grain despite the 341 yen per kg levy that had previously priced foreign products out of the market.

Japanese have also acquired a taste for U.S. Calrose rice, while imports from Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam have also been popular with businesses and cost-conscious consumers.

"Expensive rice might sell to niche markets, but getting that up to 350,000 tons would require price competitiveness, and there's a long way for that," said Kazunuki Ohizumi, professor emeritus at Miyagi University and an expert on agricultural management.

The government aims to provide some form of support but also expects farmers to make their own efforts to consolidate, and make use of artificial intelligence and other technologies to lower production costs.

Meanwhile, Hosaka said, prices of fertilizers, pesticides and fuel have shot up, sending production costs through the roof.

"It's tough," he said. "The government has released quite a bit of stockpiled rice, so I'm very worried about prices falling even further."

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THAKSIN ATTENDS 'LAST' PRESECUTOR WITNESS HEARING IN ARTICLE 112 CASE - THAILAND FORMER PRIME MINISTER

THAKSIN ATTENDS 'LAST' PRESECUTOR WITNESS HEARING IN ARTICLE 112 CASE - THAILAND FORMER PRIME MINISTER

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Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra attended the public prosecutor's witness hearing on Thursday, which was scheduled to be the final state witness hearing in the Article 112 case against him, his laywer said.

Thaksin, accused of defaming the monarchy in an interview with South Korean media in 2015, arrived at the Criminal Court in the same blue Rolls-Royce he used to attend a state witness hearing on Wednesday.

His brother-in-law, Somchai Wongsawat, also attended the hearing to provide moral support.

Speaking to reporters before attending the hearing, Thaksin’s lawyer, Winyat Chartmontree, said the public prosecutor in charge of the case was scheduled to present accounts from three state witnesses on Thursday.

Winyat said he believed the three state witnesses could finish testifying by Thursday; otherwise, the prosecutor would ask the court for another witness hearing.

Winyat also mentioned that he had prepared several defence witnesses to testify in an attempt to disprove the information presented by the prosecutors.

The lawyer stated that the case was politically motivated, with Thaksin being a victim who had not been treated fairly by the government agencies in charge of the case from the beginning.

As a result, the defence was not concerned about the case, and Winyat was confident the defence could disprove the allegations.

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VIRAL KEJAM KES BUNUH ZARA QAIRINA PELAJAR TINGKATAN SATU - SABAH

VIRAL KEJAM KES BUNUH ZARA QAIRINA PELAJAR TINGKATAN SATU - SABAH

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KEMATIAN tragis pelajar Tingkatan Satu, Zara Qairina Mahathir, 13, yang dilaporkan terjatuh dari tingkat tiga asrama sebuah sekolah agama di Papar, Sabah, mengundang gelombang kesedihan dan desakan keadilan bukan saja rakyat di negeri ini, tetapi di seluruh negara.

Malah, ketika ini, seperti satu gelombang tanda pagar #JusticeForZara berada di rata-rata akaun sosial media sejak Khamis lalu.

Ikuti kronologi kes Zara Qairina.

16 Julai 2025 (Rabu)

Jam 3 pagi

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-Kejadian berlaku ketika kebanyakan pelajar lain masih berjaga.

-Tiada jeritan, tiada saksi, dan tiada kamera CCTV disahkan di lokasi.

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