The Nagasaki prefectural government opened the orphanage known as Koyoryo in 1948, three years after the Aug. 9 bombing, about 3 kilometers north of ground zero, in what is now called the ...

During World War II, thousands of prisoners of war were detained on in a camp in Nagasaki. When the atomic bomb was dropped on ... material on the war, and on post-war experiences in the ...

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.

After 52 months of studying atom-bomb damage to buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense summed up their findings for the benefit of U.S ...

The idea to use chindonya came from Takahira Noriyasu, a former director of the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, who saw Kawachi perform. Takahira Noriyasu ...

A survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons has died aged 93. Shigemi Fukahori died at a hospital in ...

Nearly eight decades ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s ...

TOKYO, August 9. /TASS/. The memorial service on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of atomic bombing of Japanese cities by the United States will be held in Nagasaki. The silence minute will be ...

“The atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as the Hibakusha ... action are heard and acted upon,” it ...

Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed in the explosions and countless others were disfigured ...