A Japanese peace activist is hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament by keeping alive the stories of the atomic bomb ...

Hiroshima, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing words at a three-day international meeting about peace, when President ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing words at a three-day international meeting about peace, when President ...

Setsuko Thurlow, 85, was 13 years old when she was rescued from the ruins of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. On Sunday she receives the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

TOKYO — A leading Japanese campaigner against nuclear weapons who survived the world's first atomic bomb attack has died at the age of 96, BBC News reported on Wednesday. Sunao Tsuboi was on his way ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

HIROSHIMA -- Hiroshima City University here has begun publishing its extensive collection of artworks and academic resources ...

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Friday marked the 76th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, as the mayor of the Japanese city urged global leaders to unite to eliminate nuclear weapons, just as ...