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 ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden’s interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell demonstrates that the project of right-wing Zionism, led by ...

With “Hiroshima,” a book he started researching ... He takes us along with children who survived just because their homeroom ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading ...

The city fell silent at 8:15 a.m. A woman in Hiroshima City quietly prays together with her mother and two children while facing the Atomic Bomb Dome. The woman said her grandparents were exposed ...

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 ...

Shigeko Niimoto was born on June 16, 1932, in Hiroshima. She was one of four children of Masayuki Niimoto, an oyster fisherman, and Sato (Tanabe) Niimoto, who ran the home, not far from the ...

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 ...

They didn't die like human beings." Getty Images Children in Hiroshima wear masks to protect themselves from air pollution amid the ruined city in October 1945 Japan surrendered unconditionally on ...