Photo taken by Matsumoto Eiichi, around August 1945. According to a virtual exhibit (archived) at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Matsumoto photographed the aftermath of the bombing in Nagasaki ...

we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by dozens of people ...

President Barack Obama is in Hiroshima, Japan Friday, the first sitting president to visit the site of the first wartime use of an atomic weapon. Speaking at the city's Peace Memorial Park ...

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 has welcomed 2 million ...

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima today is a thriving metropolis and to fully ... a new-ish high-rise near the peace park (just visible in the upper right-hand corner of the top photo of this ...

The commemorative ceremony is held annually on Aug. 6 in front of a cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park that reads, “Let all the souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the ...

People at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park are writing messages on paper lanterns that will be floated down the river on Sunday evening to mourn those who died. Setsuko Thurlow, a Canada based 91 ...

Participants at the ceremony, held at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, commemorated victims of the atomic bombing by a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m., the exact time when the bomb detonated.

I hope today is an opportunity for children to think about world peace." A female high school student from Hiroshima City, who observed the moment of silence in the memorial park, said ...

Sachi Okamoto, 23, a youth peace volunteer who guides foreign visitors at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, also joined the ... at Nagasaki City Hall holding a photo of her father.