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Hiroshima

In this Aug. 9, 1945, file photo, a giant column of smoke rises after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port town of Nagasaki, Japan.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Oppenheimer’ film ‘fails’ to show devastation of atom bombs in postwar Japan, critics say
An older Japanese man hugs former President Barack Obama
Justice
Why this Hiroshima survivor dedicated his life to searching for the families of 12 American POWs
Hiroshima residents release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 67th anniversary of the bombing.
Justice
Japanese and Americans remember the closing chapter of World War II so very differently
A-bomb survivors: My mom and her mother Jettie on board the ship Oranje, which had been a hospital vessel during the war. They were on the boat’s first post-war civilian transport, making the crossing here from Java to Melbourne, Australia in November 194
Conflict
The Bomb saved my mom
Hiroshima survivor Sueko Hada (foreground) with her daughter, granddaughters and great-granddaughter.
Justice
‘It truly was a vision of Hell’ – a Hiroshima survivor speaks out
Bunnies on Okunojima, Japan
Environment
Cuddly Rabbit Island in Japan has something of a sinister past
Earth Ear
Blog: Returning Home to Japan
The World in Words
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and self-censorship
Arts, Culture & Media
The impact of Hiroshima’s bombing, 65 years later
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Arts, Culture & Media
Hiroshima pilot becomes peace advocate
The World – Episode 20071101 – Hiroshima news