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The following are the six joint applicants of the “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing-Photographs and films in 1945” and the organizations in possession of the materials submitted for the application that are involved in the creation of this website.
Hiroshima is the first A-bombed city in human history. The Hiroshima City government continues its efforts to achieve nuclear abolition and lasting world peace, in accordance with the wishes for peace of A-bomb survivors, who experienced the horrors of the atomic bombing. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum serves as the ‘base’ for communicating the reality of the atomic bombing, the starting point for A-bomb survivors’ hopes for peace. The museum archives 22,000 physical artifacts, such as personal belongings of A-bomb victims, as well as 70,000 photographs, including materials in the application made to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s “Memory of the World” program.
The Chugoku Shimbun, with its head office in Hiroshima, launched a daily newspaper in 1892. On August 6, 1945, its head office was destroyed in the atomic bombing, which killed 114 employees, or one-third of its workforce. Currently, the newspaper company has more than 30 offices, including head offices, branches and bureaus in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, Tokyo, and other prefectures.
Founded in 1879, the Asahi Shimbun is engaged in work involving newspaper and digital media content, and so on. The company has four head offices, one branch office, 43 general bureaus and 84 bureaus throughout Japan, as well as five general bureaus and 21 bureaus overseas. The Hiroshima bureau was damaged in the atomic bombing.
The Mainichi Newspapers is a national daily, founded on February 21, 1872, as the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun, the first daily newspaper in Tokyo. The company merged with the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun in 1911, and adopted the name “Mainichi Shimbun” in 1943. As of April 2024, the company had four head offices in Tokyo, Osaka, western Japan, and the country’s Chubu district, as well as a branch in Hokkaido. It also has branch offices and communications departments throughout Japan, as well as 13 bureaus overseas. The company’s Hiroshima branch was completely destroyed and incinerated in the atomic bombing, resulting in four employees being killed.
A radio and television broadcaster with its head office in Hiroshima. The company got its start as a radio broadcaster in 1952, seven years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and began television broadcasts in 1959. The company has branch offices and bureaus in Tokyo, Osaka, as well as Fukuyama and Kure cities.
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) is the country’s public broadcaster, with a total of 54 broadcasting stations in Shibuya, Tokyo, and other areas throughout Japan. The company also has 29 overseas bureaus. It was formed in March 1925 from such broadcasters as the Tokyo Broadcasting Station, the first station to deliver a broadcast in Japan. The company’s Hiroshima broadcasting station was devastated in the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, and by the end of that day, 34 employees had died. With surviving employees working on restoration, the company resumed broadcasting by 9 a.m. the following day, August 7.
Kyodo News is an international news agency (wire service) that covers and edits domestic and international news, which it distributes to newspapers, NHK, and commercial broadcasters throughout Japan, as well as to media organizations overseas. The agency was founded in 1945 as the successor organization to the Domei News Agency, which was voluntarily dissolved after Japan’s surrender in World War II. Kyodo News has a head office in Minato Ward, Tokyo, as well as branch offices and bureaus in Osaka and other cities in all prefectures throughout Japan. The company has general bureaus in 41 cities overseas and correspondents in 10 locations.
Representatives of six A-bomb survivor organizations, three Nagasaki survivor groups, and representatives from the nationwide Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) have expressed their support for this application
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