The U.S. attack on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people. The bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed another 70,000 before Japan’s surrender ended World War II. Continue reading
Akira Tanimoto says his apartment narrowly survived the floods and mudslide at his residential complex over the weekend, and even if he wants to go back there with his wife and two pet birds, he can’t because there is no water, power or food available. Continue reading
Rescuers in Japan are racing to find survivors after torrential rains soaked lush landscapes, causing mudslides, displacing thousands of residents and leaving over 120 people dead. Continue reading
Setsuko Thurlow was 13 when the 1945 bombing devastated her Japanese city. Continue reading
Sunday’s Nobel ceremony will bring together several survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, it will be snubbed by the ambassadors of the U.S, France and the U.K. Continue reading
A Canadian anti-nuclear activist who survived the bombing at Hiroshima will soon travel to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading
Hiroshima officials expect the Pokemon Go monsters will stay away from the atomic bomb memorial permanently. Continue reading
Japan is marking the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by renewing calls for a nuclear weapons free world. Continue reading
“Pokemon Go” players are descending on an atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima, and officials of the western Japanese city are displeased. Continue reading
Barack Obama on Friday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, bringing global attention both to survivors and to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons. Continue reading