The ginkgo’s survival of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 has become legendary, though it wasn’t the only tree to ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped "Little Boy," one of two atomic bombs it had created as a result of the Manhattan Project, on Hiroshima, Japan. Within moments, everything within the ...

A tree surgeon in Hiroshima lovingly treats trees that live on around 8 decades after the A-bomb devastation. He intentionally leaves their scars intact as some of them near the end of their lives.

Miho Nakashima stood in a two-piece bathing suit in Tokyo on Aug. 27 next to a 100-year-old gingko tree, her body painted head-to-toe in green leaves and brown branches. Her message was clear, and ...