NEW YORK—An atomic bomb survivor representing the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate called for the abolition of the weapons that put hibakusha through “hell” at a U.N. conference on the treaty banning ...

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

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 ...

Court rejects claim that radiation from the 1945 bomb blasts affected the children of survivors, accepting the government’s argument that there is no sufficient scientific evidence for higher rates of ...

Fr Alberto Berra, a PIME missionary in the city of the first atomic bomb in 1945, speaks about the decision to award the prize to the association that gives voice to the victims who still bear the ...

Tanaka Terumi, a representative member of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, has spoken at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway. His speech on Tuesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

He works in mysterious ways.