Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

Starting this year, the government will no longer conduct a survey done every 10 years since 1965 to assess the living conditions and health status of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors. The announcement ...

I was in Nagasaki recently. In the scorching heat, I visited The Nagasaki Shimbun building where a “No War” monument stands. At the front desk, I was directed to a room in the editorial department on ...

Hiroshima, Aug. 6 (Jiji Press)--Seven groups of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture on Wednesday urged Japan to attend meetings of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of ...

Fifteen years ago, on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I spent two weeks in Japan with American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute. After I spoke at Ritsumeikan ...

Ambassador Boukadoum. Chair of the First Committee ; Thomas Markram, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, UNODA; Mr. Toshiki Fujimori, Deputy Secretary General, Nihon Hidankyo On ...

Seventy-one years ago this month, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The death toll for those attacks, including people killed by radiation ...

On 18 December 2015, Mr. Yasuaki Yamashita, a hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) from Nagasaki who now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, met with UN Tour Guides and also with UN interns in New ...

It is very likely that humanity would not exist if not for the Hibakusha—those who survived, 75 years ago this week, the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki three days later. That may seem ...

This week marks 73 years since the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, ultimately resulting in the deaths of more than 200,000 people. With the dawn of the nuclear ...

She would see it several more mornings in a vision, and even wore her glasses to bed to make sure. Hiroshima. It was not a good time in her life. She was newly divorced. Thieves had chopped down a ...

Author Kathleen Burkinshaw (right) tells her mother's story of surviving the Hiroshima bombing in a young adult novel, "The Last Cherry Blossom" (Sky Pony/2016). Seventy-five years ago this week, the ...