Applications are now open for this year’s “Hiroshima and Peace” intensive summer courses at Hiroshima City University to be held July 31 – August 9.
The two courses, one for undergraduate students and another for graduates, usually attract a very international mix of participants and is very reasonably priced.
4 students from Anabuki College in Fukuyama moe-ed up the local blood donation clinic by turning it into a maid cafe for two days this week.
In an effort to boost donations at a time of year when they typically drop off, and to try and spark interest in donating blood among the young people, the students college’s Media Business Department came up with a plan to give the local donation clinic a bit of otaku cool, by turning it into a maid cafe.
Hiroshima prefecture is taking the unusual a step of introducing a local tax break for purchasers of new “clean diesel” cars.
In an attempt to allay (cynics might say exploit) consumer anxieties over food safety in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, local supermarket chain Fresta has begun taking independent radiation measurements of a selection of its products.
