atomic bombing

EDITORIAL: Japan should work with Obama to resolve...
November 09, 2012
With the re-election of President Barack Obama, U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation will continue for another four years.
VOX POPULI: Three victims of radiation remembered
August 10, 2012
As in previous years, this year's ceremony to memorialize the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, opened with a song sung by Himawari (Sunflower), a choir formed by...
Fukushima teens find parallels in Hiroshima’s...
Junior high school students from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, dedicate a thousand paper cranes to the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 (Ryo Ikeda)
August 07, 2012
HIROSHIMA--It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something from the distant past learned only in ...
Daughter to tell Korean A-bomb survivor's story
Kim Mi-mi and her mother, Byun Yeon-ok, at a facility where South Korean women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II live, in Gwangju, South Korea (The Asahi Shimbun)
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...
Memorabilia of double atomic bomb victim featured...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi in front of one of his paintings in 2007 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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.
Sadako's origami crane to be displayed at Pearl...
This origami paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki will be donated. It is said that a candy wrapper was used. (Provided by Sadako Legacy)
June 11, 2012
An origami created by a girl who contracted leukemia and died as a result of Hiroshima's atomic bombing will be displayed at the visitor center of a memorial for victims of the ...
A-bomb survivors to write letters to Fukushima...
Masahito Hirose talks about his experience as an atomic bomb survivor to junior and senior high school students in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Aug. 9, 2011, the anniversary of the day an A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. (Hideki Yanaru)
April 15, 2012
NAGASAKI--A-bomb survivor Masahito Hirose knows that female high school students in Fukushima city need reassurance as they worry about the future ramifications of the...
A-bomb artifacts now on permanent display at U.N....
Exhibits related to 1945 atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are displayed at the entrance hall of the United Nations Office in Geneva. (Hiroyuki Maegawa)
November 15, 2011
Items found in the rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the 1945 atomic bombings have gone on permanent display at the United Nations Office in Geneva.
Saplings of 'A-bomb' tree planted at Kyoto temples
Saplings from a phoenix tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are planted at Kinkakuji temple in Kyoto on Aug. 15. (The Asahi Shimbun)
August 16, 2011
KYOTO--Second-generation saplings grown from a phoenix tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima were planted at World Heritage sites Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji temples...
Mass held to mourn Nagasaki's A-bomb victims
Nagasaki's Urakami Tenshudo Catholic Church holds a 6 a.m. mass on Aug. 9. (Azumi Fukuoka)
August 09, 2011
Nagasaki's Urakami Tenshudo Catholic Church held a 6 a.m. mass on Aug. 9 to pray for victims of the city's atomic bombing 66 years ago.
Panel: Fukushima accident shows dangers posed by...
Yoko Ono hugs a student after receiving a wreath of paper cranes at the International Symposium for Peace 2011 in Hiroshima on July 31. (Takuya Isayama)
August 01, 2011
HIROSHIMA--The crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has exposed the fact that a nuclear power plant can be as dangerous as a nuclear weapon, experts told a...
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