Children of atomic bomb survivors remain ineligible for the same government support given to their parents following a ruling handed down by the Hiroshima High Court on Dec. 13. The lawsuit was ...

Mikamo Akiko wrote the book "8:15" is based on. Sharing a familiar story with a new audience Japanese children, especially in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, grow up hearing the stories of atomic bomb ...

A 10-year-old boy in this western Japan city received the "family disaster preparedness special award" for fiscal 2024 in a ...

You’ll want to consider whether or not your children can be respectful to the memories of those who died in Hiroshima as well as those coming to honor them. Every family will need to weigh their ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families ...

A piano with a tragic story behind it has made it to the Hiroshima stage in a theatrical performance that honors the memories ...

From that summer on, Hiroshima and Nagasaki ceased being the ... Those interviewed in Atomic People were children when the US president Harry S Truman unleashed nuclear weapons – the only ...

This was unlike most school-age children of Hiroshima who were clearing fire lanes in the city centre that morning and were killed instantly by the bomb. At 8.15am that morning, Setsuko was caught ...

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

In 1953, a Japanese-American artist by the name of Chuzo Tamotzu facilitated an exchange of children’s art between Hiroshima, Japan, and Tamotzu’s home of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This exchange brought a ...

In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded ... Eighty thousand men, women and children were killed and tens of thousands wounded, disfigured and poisoned by radiation from the bomb.

Hiroshima’s inhabitants came into contact ... One of the most deadly effects was leukaemia, disproportionately affecting children. The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) has found ...