Kiyoshi Tanimoto certainly did not know what had happened. On the morning of the attack, August 6, 1945, he rose early in ...

On the morning the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, resident Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, was on his way out of town transporting a handcart of items to a ...

HIROSHIMA—Throughout this city, which was once devastated by an atomic bomb, people gathered at public viewings, celebrations ...

The tour that showcases the city’s reconstruction, uses Hiroshima Electric Railway’s streetcar No. 653, which was damaged in ...

Kikuko (Kiko) Otake was only 5 years old during the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 6 and on Aug. 9 of 1945. For years afterward, she kept the horrific memory of ...

When the Nobel Peace Prize went to the Japanese grassroots organization Nihon Hidankyo three weeks ago, it arrived, in a sense, in the nick of time. Many of the group’s members are hibakusha, ...

KAWAGOE, Japan >> Hopes are rising that more attention will be paid to a couple who created a series of large paintings depicting the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, following Nihon ...

She survived the Hiroshima bombing as a toddler but not its invisible aftermath. Sadako Sasaki's paper cranes transformed one child's hope into a lasting global symbol of peace.

One of the most painful things about growing older is the death of deeply loved and deeply wise mentors. A few years ago, during a terribly short span of time, three of my favorite priests passed away ...

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand ...

After the atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, historians and survivors, alike, have collected information on the bomb’s destruction and future impact. The modern city of Hiroshima ...