A brief glimpse into the past

Team, Place & City Details

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Sanfrecce Hiroshima is a Japanese professional football club based in Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima. The club plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country.

Vissel Kobe
Vissel Kobe

Vissel Kobe is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J1 League. The team is located in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture.

Hiroshima Dragonflies

The Hiroshima Dragonflies are a professional basketball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. In October 2014 they commenced competing in the Western Conference of the Japanese National Basketball League.

Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Hiroshima Toyo Carp

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp are a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Kobelco Steelers

Kobe Steel Rugby Club – commonly known as the Kobelco Steelers – are a Japanese rugby union team owned by Kobe Steel, and based in Kobe. They were the first ever Top League champions when the League started in the 2003-2004 season.

Ajax København

Ajax København is a handball club based in southwestern Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of both a women's and a men's team. As of the 2017-18 season, the women's team compete in Damehåndboldligaen, the highest women's league in Denmark, whereas the men's team compete in the 1st Division.

Kobe Paras

Kobe Lorenzo Forster Paras is a Filipino basketball player for the UP Fighting Maroons of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). He played for the Philippine 3x3 basketball team.

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.

Hiroshima
Hiroshima

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391.

Michihiko Hachiya

Michihiko Hachiya was a Japanese medical practitioner who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience. He was Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital, about a mile from the explosion's center.

Hiroshima (disambiguation)

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region, Japan.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima , also known as Hiroshima Death Match, is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is the second film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years.

Hiroshima Domain

Hiroshima Domain was a han, or feudal domain, of Edo period Japan. Based at Hiroshima castle in the city of Hiroshima, the domain encompassed Aki province and parts of neighboring Bingo province.