Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had ...

Time is becoming Hiroshima’s most urgent problem. The dilemma is quietly measured in a granite structure not far from ground ...

You’ve heard of the hibakusha, although you may not know them by that name. They are the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 years ago this month. The word means, roughly, ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Japanese grassroots organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work to “achieve a world free of nuclear weapons,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a Friday ...

TOKYO — The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they ...

Hitomi Hamanaka’s 2003 documentary, receiving its first U.S. screening, about radiation victims (the Japanese word for which is hibakusha) around the world, including Iraqi children, American farmers, ...

On December 11, following the December 10 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to award Nihon Hidankyo, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum will take place at the Oslo University Aula. Organized by the Norwegian Nobel ...

Toshiyuki Namikawa, left, principal of Hiroshima municipal Midorimachi Junior High School, speaks with students in Hiroshima. The booklet is still used as part of the school’s peace education ...

As Japan prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this year, the country’s top diplomat has renewed calls for an end to nuclear weapons. The message was ...

Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he and his mother walked through ...