Japan and U.S. urge world leaders to visit A-bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A joint statement came after a U.N. conference to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was put off amid the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Hiroshima as permanent host of NPT review conference?
Hiroshima should be the permanent host of all future NPT review conferences so that discussions and negotiations are held in the shadow of the realities of nuclear warfare.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday he is considering making a video address to the U.N. nuclear nonproliferation meeting in January.
The agreement may allow more people exposed to black rain to receive aid as atomic bomb survivors and the ministry plans to put the criteria into place in April.
Texas university holds graphic photo exhibition on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The exhibition, titled "Flash of Light, Wall of Fire," was organized by the University of Texas at Austin in cooperation with the Anti-Nuclear Photographers' Movement of Japan.
In a meeting in Tokyo with the U.N. undersecretary general, Kishida agreed on the importance of meaningful results at January's review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Time is running out for victims of the world's first nuclear explosion
Trinity Site in southern New Mexico is the location of the first ever nuclear detonation, but not many know of its victims.
Leading Hiroshima A-bomb survivor and campaigner Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96
After working as a junior high school teacher, he devoted himself to anti-nuclear activities, conveying the horror of nuclear weapons for decades.
Hiroshima university students making documentary on 'black rain' hibakusha
The film, motivated by anger at a lack of government support for the A-bomb victims, documents the hardships residents in Hiroshima's Saeki Ward have endured over the years.
Japanese teenager calls for nuke-free world at U.N. disarmament confab
Rio Sasaki, 18, related the physical and psychological pains suffered by her grandmother throughout her life as a victim of the atomic bombings.
Peace Boat goes virtual with A-bomb survivors' stories amid pandemic
COVID-19 distancing measures have allowed the group to hold online events, with hibakusha telling their stories to people around the world.
A director tackles the story of Japan's own nuclear experiment
Hiroshi Kurosaki put years of research into his film, "Gift of Fire," which portrays Japan’s project to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
