What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...

The museum received renewed global attention when the Group of Seven (G7) leaders visited it during their summit in Hiroshima ...

A timeline of the most destructive global conflict in history, from the ferocious attacks Nazi Germany unleashed across Europe, to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2 ...

Japan must not only focus on its own suffering from the atomic bombings during World War II but also recognize the harm it inflicted on other countries, including its 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea, a ...

The website “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” is now live and has been nominated for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program. An English version is ...

In 2025, let Hiroshima's story of resilience shape your Japan itinerary with this essential guide to the key attractions and ...

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 ...

Although many things to do in Hiroshima revolve around the devasting boming during WWII history, this is a city on the rise.

HIROSHIMA--When the tram started running again here only three days after the U.S. atomic bombing, 14-year-old Satoko Sasaguchi served as the conductor for the somber ride amid the devastated city.

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 in the final days of World War II, killing an estimated 214,000 people by the end of that year and leaving numerous ...