High school students form a human chain around the hypocenter cenotaph in Nagasaki on Aug

atomic bomb in Nagasaki at a location 1.8 kilometers from the hypocenter. —The Japan News/ Published in

Lanterns with faint lights were floated on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on Aug.... 6 as symbols of prayers for the souls of victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945.... " My house was destroyed by the atomic bomb, but I think we were lucky, as our whole family survived....

A screening event for a video on Minamata disease patients is held in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Nov.... The video was made by a network of people promoting the Minamata Convention on Mercury, or Mico Net.... The group aims for the establishment of international regulations on mercury--the cause of Minamata disease--and members spent a month to make the video in line with the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury( COP-4) held f

HIROSHIMA--Hiroshima filmmaker Masaaki Tanabe considers himself to be the" caretaker of the Atomic Bomb Dome." The 83-year-old man was born and raised next door to this building that was destroyed by the world's first-ever nuclear attack, of which the skeletal dome has become a symbol.... A Mainichi Shimbun reporter joined Tanabe to observe today's A-Bomb Dome and to reconfirm what it symbolizes.... A map of present-day Hiroshima shows filmmaker Masaaki Tanabe's home and military ground before

Pak Nam-ju talks about her experiences during a training session for people who will be passing down stories about hibakusha, in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on July 15, 2021.... The 14 people being trained to carry on passing down the stories of Pak's experience as a hibakusha, or survivor of the atomic bomb, smiled back at her.... " I'm so forgetful these days," she said....

2, 2009 file photo, Sunao Tsuboi talks about nuclear weapons at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the city of Hiroshima.... 22, and some 400 people are at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here to bid farewell to Sunao Tsuboi, former chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations( Hiroshima Hidankyo) and a tireless advocate for nuclear disarmament, who died in October at age 96.... On the event program are words written by the man himself in inky black b

Joichi Ishida, right, who wrote the" atomic bomb circumstances investigation" while a student in 1946, is seen answering questions from Mitsugi Moriguchi about the leaflet, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov.... He was puzzled at the contents of the leaflet, titled" 8.9 Nagasaki( 1945) atomic bomb damage circumstances investigation." Though it purported to be an account of the damage inflicted by the United States' Aug.... Moriguchi is secretary-general of The Nagasaki Testimonial Society, a

He assumed the position of a specially appointed research fellow at the Nagasaki University Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition on July 1.... When Hayashida was in high school, he took part in the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Messenger program, in which a group of high school students from across Japan visits the United Nations each year to hand over a collection of signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.... During his visit to the U.N., Hayashida and fellow teen peace m

This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Close Close Modal Dialog This is a modal window.... This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. HIROSHIMA--A Noh performance was held on the evening of Nov.... The event Torchlight Noh at the Atomic Bomb Dome is held in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on Nov....