Local media reported he died of old age. The church, about 500 yards from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and some ...

Mayor Shiro Suzuki, in a speech at Nagasaki Peace Park, called for nuclear weapon states and those under their nuclear umbrellas, including Japan, to abolish the weapons. “You must face up to ...

NAGASAKI--Atomic bomb survivors rallied at the Peace Park here on June 9 for the 500th protest sit-in they have continued staging on the ninth day of every month for more than four decades. The ...

The only remnant of the blast is a monument called the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park. Even the cathedral has been rebuilt. Yamawaki feels sad that the bombing seems to have been ...

Takeshi Yamakawa, a "hibakusha" A-Bomb survivor, is seen at a sit-in for the abolishment of atomic weapons on a cold morning at Nagasaki Peace Park, Feb. 9, 2025. (Mainichi/Takehiro Higuchi ...

Local media reported he died of old age. The church, located about 500 metres from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and ...

Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response ...

The United States National Park Service has launched an initiative to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombs were developed ...

Local media reported he died of old age. The church, located about 500 metres from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and ...