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 ...

The rainfall data is based on two documents: records of interviews conducted in the 1950s by the U.S. Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) with around 40,000 Nagasaki residents and testimonials ...

During World War II, thousands of prisoners of war were detained on in a camp in Nagasaki. When the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945, they were far enough away to survive ...

Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the end of World War II. No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the ...

Why We Need a Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget Overhaul Foreign Aid to Serve American Interests The dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 ...

A postman with a red back On August 9, 1945, the day an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, 16-year-old Taniguchi Sumiteru was delivering mail on his bicycle about two kilometers from ground zero ...

TOKYO: Tens of thousands marked the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, as the city’s pacifist mayor urged the Japanese government to listen to increasing concerns over ...

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

TOKYO (AP) — Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93.

Shigemi Fukahori, 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. Mr Fukahori died at a ...