Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...
The register, which records the names of 202,053 victims, was exposed to the air to remove moisture after municipal employees ...
In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August ...
Survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their mayors expressed disappointment Saturday after ...
The Taiwanese government expressed its intention to participate in ceremonies in both cities last year and did so for the ...
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said it was "extremely regrettable" that the meeting ended without a final ...
NAGASAKI--Strict criteria over whether a person qualifies as a hibakusha survivor has meant that many people, through no ...
The Japanese community in Winnipeg is marking a dark day in history — it was 70 years ago today that an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb nicknamed ...
The atomic bombs ended World War II, but at a devastating cost. Japan’s refusal to surrender meant the fighting, the civilian ...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the Second World War period. His .