Japan must not only focus on its own suffering from the atomic bombings during World War II but also recognize the harm it inflicted on other countries, including its 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea, a ...

Instead, they are collectively known as “hibaku taikensha” (people who were exposed to radiation), who were outside the zone the government designated for receiving the atomic-bomb survivor ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

Thirty years ago, 168 people – included 19 children – were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. A devastated mother who lost ...

“It can lead people to understand the true nature of the atomic bomb, its cruelty and the sorrow it caused,” she said. “Through this, people might come to realize that survivors are not ...

The lack of medical and financial support for atomic bomb survivors in the early years after the war prompted Shizuko to express her frustration in poetry. A writer who saw the poem encouraged ...

Out of the blue, the teacher said: “I understand that you’ve come here to interview A-bomb survivors.” Then, the teacher revealed her “secret,” that she was a “hibakusha,” a survivor ...

Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, continue to work for a nuclear weapons-free world. They hope the treaty will come into force by next year. In his peace declaration this ...

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.