Hiroshima

My most mysterious reading experience of 2019 began with a dream, in which a friend arranged for me to meet with her literary agent. He had read my novel manuscript and told me he liked it very much, then handed me a musty pile of books. He instructed me to…

Day 10 Hiroshima We're taking another Bullet Train today, and this time it will transport us to Hiroshima. This city is infamous as the target of the first-ever atomic bomb, dropped by the US at the end of the Second World War. You'll tour this rebuilt city …

A still from The Breast Milk of the Volcano by Unknown Fields.Credit: Unknown Fields Ecovisionaries Royal Academy of Arts, London. Until 23 February. Sustainability demands creative thinking. At the Royal Academy, architects, artists and designers are col…

A still from The Breast Milk of the Volcano by Unknown Fields.Credit: Unknown Fields Ecovisionaries Royal Academy of Arts, London. Until 23 February. Sustainability demands creative thinking. At the Royal Academy, architects, artists and designers are col…

Key point: While the B-29 was responsible for the three deadliest bombing raids in historythe firebombing of Tokyo and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasakiits successor the B-50 never dropped a bomb in anger. Quiz time! Which secret American milita…

The entrance to the Atom Bomb Museum in Nagasaki is at the foot of a spiral slope. As you descend, dates on the wall count down to the moment when the bomb detonated. The Japanese city was the second human settlement to come under nuclear attack. So far, its …

Thousands of people have signed an online petition against the planned demolition of two early 20th-century buildings that remained intact after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima devastated the Japanese city. A local government official confirmed to AFP on Tue…

A series of nuclear bomb tests were conducted in the Pacific right after World War II, and they appear to have left behind enduring traces that havent been properly surveyed until recently.Scientists have for the first time registered and mapped the aftermath…

Two of the buildings in Hiroshima that survived the 1945 atomic bomb are to be knocked down due to the risk of collapse, despite calls from the community to preserve them. The buildings were erected in 1913 and formerly owned by the Hiroshima Army Clothing d…

Image copyrightGoogleImage caption A Google street view picture with a warning that the building is not earthquake safe The Japanese city of Hiroshima plans to knock down two buildings that survived the 1945 atomic bomb - but some locals want them preserve…