Hibakusha
April 28, 2013
Even at the age of 96, Shuntaro Hida, a physician who survived the first-ever atomic bombing in history, has no plans to stop working toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.
March 12, 2013
OSLO--Atomic bomb survivors and their supporters welcomed the first international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, even though the two-day...
January 20, 2013
Two scholars who have spent their careers collating first-hand accounts of atomic victims from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and using those experiences to push for nuclear...
January 10, 2013
NAGASAKI--Nagasaki-born manga artist Izumi Marumoto had never fully engaged with the legacy of the atomic bomb that devastated her city some 20 years before she was born.
September 11, 2012
JERUSALEM--A group of survivors from the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack have held a protest in Jerusalem calling for the end of nuclear weapons.
August 10, 2012
Each time photographer Keizo Yoshida releases the shutter of his camera, he tells himself, "There's still time."
August 08, 2012
NAGASAKI--Hirofumi Ogawa watched the events of last year's nuclear disaster unfold with a sense of both dread and déjà vu.
August 06, 2012
HIROSHIMA--Keiko Kawamoto was just 4 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima during the closing days of World War II.
August 06, 2012
8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945. Our hometown was reduced to ashes by a single atomic bomb. The houses we came home to, our everyday lives, the customs we cherished--all were gone:...
August 03, 2012
GWANGJU, South Korea--Kim Mi-mi did not find out until she entered university that her mother, Byun Yeon-ok, was a hibakusha, one of the victims of the atomic bombing of...
August 03, 2012
The town of Namie, in the no-entry zone surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is set to issue its own radiation dose book for evacuees this month in the hope it...
August 03, 2012
NAGASAKI--Memorabilia of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb blasts at the end of World War II, will be displayed in Iceland for a two-month period from Aug. 9.
August 02, 2012
HIROSHIMA--Although he was born and raised in Hiroshima, Yoshiki Nagoya, 56, has until now not done anything special on Aug. 6, the day on which the atomic bomb fell on the...
June 02, 2012
HIROSHIMA--At least 307 individuals, twice as many as previously believed, visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki during or immediately after the 1945 atomic bombings and were exposed...
May 22, 2012
All of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors are currently offline--for now, anyway.
November 29, 2011
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe and others will form a group to collect personal experiences and artifacts from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and preserve them for...
September 21, 2011
The Asahi Shimbun opened an English-language website "Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Messages from Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors)" on Sept. 21, with the aim of...
September 10, 2011
Singer-songwriter Masaharu Fukuyama recently said in an interview with the weekly AERA magazine that his outlook has changed after the events of March 11.
August 20, 2011
The accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has led to magazine articles and publications that are trying to unravel how two competing images of Japan emerged in...
August 18, 2011
LONDON--Two documentary films featuring a Japanese who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, and was later described on a BBC program as "the unluckiest man ...