The Nagasaki prefectural government opened the orphanage known as Koyoryo in 1948, three years after the Aug. 9 bombing, about 3 kilometers north of ground zero, in what is now called the ...

Local media reported he died of old age. The church, about 500 yards from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and some ...

Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in Nagasaki, while hundreds of thousands ... Yamawaki and his brother were only 2.2 kilometres away from ground zero, but they miraculously survived the ...

was only about 200 meters from ground zero. She returned to Nagasaki that day and was exposed to the aftermath of the bomb, making her a "hibakusha," the Japanese term for an A-bomb survivor.

On August 9, 1945, the day an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, 16-year-old Taniguchi Sumiteru was delivering mail on his bicycle about two kilometers from ground zero. The blast threw him into ...

Since the site of the camp was earmarked for redevelopment, the group decided to erect the cenotaph near the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum close to ground zero. The completed structure, along with ...

Mr Fukahori was only 14 when the US dropped the bomb on the Japanese city, killing tens of thousands of people.

Local media reported he died of old age. The church, located about 500 meters from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and ...

Shigemi Fukahori died at a hospital in the Japanese city on January 3 aged 93. A survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing ...