The helmet was unearthed during the construction of Hiroshima’s present-day bus centre in 1973. Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Nakasada Tanaka. Hiroshima’s inhabitants came into ...

Getty Images Children in Hiroshima wear masks to protect themselves from air pollution amid the ruined city in October 1945 Japan surrendered unconditionally on 14 August. On the same day ...

That day, a few young people had not taken ... Toggling between the present and the past, “Hiroshima” is a highly readable, ...

Michiko died in January 2012. Her written account has now been placed in the Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima - one woman's memories of a day that changed history and altered the course of her own ...

Bingo is the name of the present-day eastern Hiroshima Prefecture. “Yabushita” refers to where a group of swordsmiths was based, while “Asazo” is the name of the swordsmith, according to ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in wartime on the Japanese city of Hiroshima ...

Many of the group’s members are hibakusha, survivors of the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they’re getting on in years. M.G. Sheftall uses the witness of men and ...