Hiroshima

ByYuki Miyamoto Photographs ByHaruka Sakaguchi Published July 20, 2023 • 5 min read When the U.S. dropped atomic bombs over Japan in August 1945, people were blown apart, burned, and crushed. Debris and ash descended as radioactive fallout, called black rain. The extreme heat of the explosions ignited massive fires…

Christopher Nolan has addressed why Oppenheimer doesn't directly depict the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The film focuses on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. The combined death toll of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are put at between 129,000 and 226,000 people, mostly…

Around the time J. Robert Oppenheimer learned that Hiroshima had been struck (alongside everyone else in the world), he began to have profound regrets about his role in the creation of that bomb. At one point, when meeting President Harry S. Truman, Oppenheimer wept and expressed that regret. Truman called…

The former (a G7 member) has invited the latter as its guest to this weekend’s summit. The event follows two historic summits between Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, with both leaders visiting each other’s capitals for talks over sake and beer. This was a big deal. These…

Hiroshima, Japan CNN  —  It began with a blinding flash and a deafening boom. Then the shockwave arrived, hurling the young boys into the air and sending shards of glass from exploding windows into their skin. Only later, as they made their way through the hellscape where their thriving city…

As leaders of the Group of Seven richest democracies kick off their summit Friday in Hiroshima, Japan, with a visit to the city's Peace Memorial -- a massive outdoor monument that captures the devastation caused by the atomic bomb -- they pledged their commitment to "achieving a world without nuclear…

Recalling the horrors of the deadly Hiroshima attack of 1945, atomic bomb survivor Kubota Masayuki on May 19 in Japan urged the G7 nations to stop engaging with the nuclear powers in order to maintain peace in the world. Narrating the ordeal that the Japanese people faced during the blast,…

HIROSHIMA, Japan —  The patter of rain had subsided on a gray Friday morning as President Biden and other Group of 7 leaders arrived at the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, the first of two Japanese cities where American planes dropped atomic bombs in August 1945, laying waste to both and…

This week’s summit of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies in Hiroshima will include eight other guest nations, part of a complicated, high-stakes diplomatic gambit meant to settle the world’s most serious crises. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited South Korea, Australia, India, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Comoros and the…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida returned to the campaign trail after being targeted by an explosive device at an event he attended in central Japan, weeks before he hosts the Group of Seven world leaders for a summit. A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion he threw an explosive…