The role she and others played is now commemorated by Hiroshima Electric Railway and RCC Broadcasting Co., which have set up a train from 1942--Tram 653--to show people the recovery efforts after ...

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 bomb reduced Hiroshima to rubble ... she could wish for recovery. Sadako exceeded her goal, but she did not survive. One of the paper cranes folded by Sadako Masahiro says his sister tried ...

believing that her wish for recovery would come true by making 1,000 of them. According to Sasaki, Obama expressed his gratitude and offered to help the Sasaki family in Hiroshima if they ever ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

Hiroshima Mayor Matsui Kazumi announced his peace declaration during the Peace Memorial Ceremony on August 6, the day a US warplane dropped an atomic bomb on the city 78 years ago. Here's his ...

Those events include the firebombing of Tokyo and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All told, more than 300,000 civilians were killed in those bombings. In his introduction ...