Shigemitsu Tanaka, co-president of Nihon Hidankyo, the organization that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, says the world ...

Fukahori died on January 3 in a Nagasaki hospital in the southwest of Japan. He became famous after surviving the horror nuclear bomb that tragically killed nearly 50,000 people and shaped the ...

TOKYO — Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died ...

In a joint letter to Donald Trump, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki urged him to come and "listen to the testimonies of ...

Japanese high school students from the atomic-bombed cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will be sent as Peace Messengers to a ...

Leaders of groups of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have called on US President Donald Trump to visit their ...

The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

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Fukahori was only 14 when the U.S. dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killing tens of thousands of people, including his family. That came three days after the nuclear attack on ...

The mayors emphasized Washington’s key role in reining in the proliferation of nuclear weapons as “tensions continue to ...

He said: ‘I am determined to send our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an atomic bomb is ever dropped.’ ...