In a similar ruling in 2021, the Hiroshima High Court acknowledged that 84 hibaku taiken sha in Hiroshima should be recognized as victims of the atomic bombing because there was no evidence that ...

On July 14, the Hiroshima High Court upheld a lower court’s decision that the 84 are eligible for the same benefits as other atomic bomb survivors who were inside the boundary and ordered the ...

where she witnessed the terrible injuries of other survivors. They were covered with blood, and their skin and flesh burned and peeling off" Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima bomb survivor “They were ...

Hibakusha is the name given to the Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945. Nihon Hidankyo is Japan's national organization of atomic bombing survivors and was ...

Over 330,000 people were killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. But the number of foreign victims is not known. One residents' group is now fighting for recognition of Chinese victims of ...

When the bomb exploded above Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., the heat and radiation from the blast devastated the city, killing about 140,000 people by the end of the year. Many survivors went on to ...

technology to colorize black-and-white photographs of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb survivors. Over the years, many atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha) have overcome hatred and sadness in hope that ...

TOKYO, August 6. /TASS/. Japan observed a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing perpetrated by the US, which took tens of thousands of lives 78 years ago.

She said she heard stories from atomic bomb survivors when she was a junior high school student, inspiring her to tour the museum. Visiting Hiroshima for the first time with her family, Shimura said, ...