TOKYO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A Japanese man who survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and was decades later hugged by Barack Obama during the then U.S. President's visit to the city, said he ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu will be shown at the Hiroshima Orizuru Tower in the city's Naka Ward from July 1 through Sept. 1, and a peace memorial service will be held on Aug. 6. On Sept. 10 ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

Many of the group’s members are hibakusha, survivors of the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they’re getting on in years. M.G. Sheftall uses the witness of men and ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town of Hiroshima, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over ...

In Hiroshima Peace Park, Visitors Hope Nobel Win Will Boost Peace Efforts By Daniel Leussink and Irene Wang HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Visitors to the memorial park for Hiroshima's atomic ...

At least 140,000 people were killed by the US bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, while a further 74,000 were killed in Nagasaki three days later. Nihon Hidankyo was founded by survivors to ...

They will be flying in the early morning, but the crew still do not know which of three cities will be their target: Hiroshima, Kokura or Nagasaki. Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee have ...

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded Friday to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, with the Nobel committee lauding the "grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and ...

People in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two Japanese cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombings in the closing days of World War II, reiterated their call for peace Saturday, a day after Nihon ...

(UPDATE) HIROSHIMA, Japan — Just like the dwindling group of survivors now recognized with a Nobel prize, the residents of Hiroshima hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945, now ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan – Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town of Hiroshima, Ms Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over by the force ...