A Japan-U.S. research institute said Tuesday it will analyze the genomes of children of hibakusha who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to understand the impact of ...

The lines have never ceased to haunt me since I came across them, as a child, possibly in some version of the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.

The average age of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is now over 86. This presents a ...

One year after receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, is seeking ways to continue its activities amid the aging of ...

A delegation from a hibakusha group in Nagasaki Prefecture met with an American woman who witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor as a child, in Honolulu on Dec. 6.

Japanese-Americans exposed to radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki returned to the US to discover it had no medical support ...

Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors are sharing personal stories and engaging in peace discussions with the ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

The Nagasaki Peace Bell in Honolulu sits near the intersection of South Beretani and Lauhala streets, at the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds. In addition to Honolulu, other replicas of the Nagasaki ...

NAGASAKI--Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited a nursing care facility here on Sept. 13 to meet with hibakusha atomic bomb survivors. It was the last stop of 80th ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series on hibakusha who responded to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun, The Chugoku Shimbun and The Nagasaki Shimbun on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings. UTO, ...