Hiroshima

Japan calls Russia nuclear threat ‘unacceptable’ on Hiroshima anniversary

TOKYO, Aug 6, 2023 (AFP) - Japan's prime minister hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the…

‘Could be your city’: a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor’s warning

  By Sara HUSSEIN Agence France-Presse HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 18, 2023 (AFP) - On August 6, 1945, four-year-old Masao Ito…

Tonga eruption equivalent to hundreds of Hiroshimas: NASA

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AFP) - The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb,…

Japan marks 75th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing

by Philip FONG HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) -- Japan on Thursday marked 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack,…

75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition

  by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks…

Unspeakable horror’: the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japan this week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic…

Japan court recognizes more Hiroshima bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- A Hiroshima court issued a rare ruling Wednesday expanding the designation of atomic bomb survivors to…

Japan urged to sign UN nuke ban on Hiroshima anniversary

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- The mayor of Hiroshima urged Japan to sign a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons as…

Japan marks 73rd anniversary of atomic attack on Hiroshima

TOKYO, Japan (AFP)--A bell tolled Monday in Hiroshima as Japan marked 73 years since the world's first atomic bombing, with…

Obama visits Hiroshima to ponder ‘terrible force unleashed’

  (Reuters)  Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on Friday, laying a wreath at the…

Korea A-bomb victims angered by Obama’s Hiroshima visit

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- A group representing Korean victims of the US atomic bombings of Japan protested Thursday that…

No Obama apology for A-bomb on Hiroshima

Tokyo, Japan (AFP)--United States President Barack Obama will not apologize for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on his landmark visit…

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