Hiroshima
Hiroshima Governor Mika Yokota has emphasized the need for workplaces where women can fully demonstrate their abilities to address the growing exodus of young women from rural areas to cities. She pointed to traditional gender roles as a major issue. These comments came in an interview ahead of International Women's Day.
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In Hiroshima Prefecture, 81-year-old farmer Takeyuki Satokawa and his wife Masako, 77, ceased rice farming on their family paddies in 2024 due to advancing age and escalating costs. This past autumn marked their first time purchasing rice from another grower. A member of an agricultural cooperative noted that while training successors is crucial, many farmers have been too preoccupied with mere survival to do so.
Police in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he hit a woman in her 40s multiple times on the head with a hammer-like object in his apartment. The man allegedly lured the woman from the building's common area into his room around 7 p.m. on Friday. The woman escaped and sought help, sustaining non-life-threatening injuries.
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One year after Nihon Hidankyo's Nobel Peace Prize win, atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima continue signature campaigns urging Japan to join the nuclear ban treaty. With the average age of hibakusha exceeding 86, support for abolition groups is growing, but hopes now rest on the youth.