Hiroshima Prefecture

Concern rises over deadly tick-borne virus in Japan
The tick that likely carries the virus behind "severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome" (SFTS) (Provided by the Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
February 20, 2013
A newly identified deadly virus probably transmitted by blood-sucking ticks is causing concern after experts confirmed it in Japan only a few years after it first surfaced in...
Letters of Olympian who perished on Iwojima find...
This letter, which Tatsugo Kawaishi sent to his wife Teruko from Iwojima island in December 1944, says he wants his son Tatsuo to be a shipbuilder. (Provided by Tatsuo Kawaishi)
July 15, 2012
ETAJIMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--Letters that an Olympic medalist sent to his wife from Iwojima island, where he perished during the final days of World War II, will soon be used ...
Paper lanterns floated for atomic-bomb victims
People pray for atomic bomb victims while releasing paper lanterns on the Motoyasugawa river in Hiroshima on Aug. 6. (Photo by Takaharu Yagi)
August 08, 2011
HIROSHIMA--Victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima were remembered on Aug. 6, the 66th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack, with the floating of paper lanterns...
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