August 7, 2023 08:11 am
TOKYO, Aug. 7: Hiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a detterent resulting from uneasiness over Russia's war in Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas, commenting Sunday as the city remembered the atomic bombing of 78 years ago.
April 30, 2023 08:05 am
TOKYO, April 30: Twenty-three residents of Japan's Hiroshima have filed a lawsuit with the Hiroshima District Court, demanding recognition of their status as victims of radioactive "black rain" following the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing.
August 6, 2018 09:09 am
TOKYO, Aug 6: Hiroshima marked the anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing with a somber ceremony Monday to remember the people killed and injured and a call to eliminate nuclear weapons amid hopes of denuclearizing North Korea.
May 27, 2016 15:00 pm
Tears ran down her face as she described the immediate aftermath of the bomb. "I could hear schoolchildren screaming: 'Help me! Help me!'" she said. "It was too pitiful, too horrible. Even now it fills me with emotion."