The fire follows the issuing of a dry weather advisory in southern Hiroshima after a long period without rain.

"Our unity will move leaders now relying on nuclear deterrence to shift their policies," Matsui said. Hiroshima Mayor Matsui Kazumi wants Japan to become a party to the UN nuclear ban treaty.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic ... to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan—until now. On March 12, the movie’s distributor, Bitters End Inc., ...

which is now Oda city, the sister told Sasaguchi that she could study while working on a tram, prompting her to follow in her sister’s footstep. Excited by the big city life of Hiroshima ...

But even now, no one on board the Enola Gay knows its final destination. A weather plane reaches Hiroshima. The sky over the city is clear. On the ground, a yellow alert rings out for 22 minutes.

AFP/Getty Images The atomic bomb destroyed thousands of buildings in Hiroshima Iwao Nakanishi, 89, was in one of the buildings when the city was bombed. He is now the head of a local group ...

Bederson, now 95, said he “certainly” knew the damage the "Little Boy" bomb could cause when it was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 June 1945, but believed it was “justified” to “end the war”.