A well-known example is the shadow of a person sitting ... people died at that time. Meanwhile, Nagasaki was attacked three days later by the "Fat Man" bomb, which caused the deaths of 40,000 ...

6 to commemorate the thousands of their compatriots who perished in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. South Korean Ambassador Kang Chang-il and a representative of the pro-Seoul Korean ...

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 ...

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.

A woman who survived the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently chose to come out of the shadows and share her unique story. 94-year-old Fukui Kinuyo survived the bombings of both ...

During World War II, thousands of prisoners of war were detained on in a camp in Nagasaki. When the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945, they were far enough away to survive ...

When the bomb fell on Hiroshima, the flash of its explosion created a ‘nuclear shadow’ — an eerie engraving of a human figure on a wall. Based on such an image photographed by Eichi Matsumoto in ...

Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed in the explosions and countless others were disfigured ...