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Japan: Sirens Mark 80 Years Since Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Nagasaki marked 80 years on Saturday, August 9, since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city, holding its annual ceremony at Peace Park, located near the hypocenter. At 11:02 a.m., the time of the bombing, bells and sirens rang out across the city in tribute to the victims.

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Japan: Nagasaki Observes 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing at Peace Park

Nagasaki marked 80 years on Saturday, August 9, since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city, holding its annual ceremony at Peace Park, located near the hypocenter. At 11:02 a.m., the time of the bombing, bells and sirens rang out in tribute to the victims, followed by a minute of silence to pray for lasting peace.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba observes a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony at Peace Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2025, the exact time when a U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on the southwestern Japan city 80 years earlier in World War II.

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2024, the exact time when a U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on the southwestern Japan city 79 years earlier in the closing days of World War II. (Pool photo)

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial ceremony in the southwestern Japan city.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at Peace Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in 1945.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial mass at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial mass at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial ceremony in the southwestern Japan city. (Pool photo)

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial ceremony in the southwestern Japan city. (Pool photo)

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People ring the Bell of Nagasaki at the Peace Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, exactly the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city.

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Nagasaki marks 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - People observe a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m. during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945.

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Nagasaki holds 69th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) offers a moment of silent prayer at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2014, the exact time the U.S. atomic bomb was dropped 69 years ago, during the ceremony at the Peace Park in Japan's southwestern city of Nagasaki.

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Wall clock donated to Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman in the city of Nagasaki has donated a wall clock (in photo) that stopped at the moment of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at around 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, museum officials said on Oct. 12. The clock, which has almost no scratches or cracks, was in her home at the time of the explosion. The home was located some 5 kilometers from the center of the blast.

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Nagasaki A-bombed 10 minutes earlier than believed: expert

NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo shows the mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Shigeo Motoyama, a senior official of the Nagasaki Marine Observatory, said that judging by a steep jump in air pressure recorded by equipment located 4 kilometers from ground zero on the day of the bombing, the bomb could have been dropped at around 10:52 a.m., 10 minutes earlier than the current official time of 11:02 a.m.

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Nagasaki mourns death of 5,500 school A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki citizens mourn the death of about 5,500 pupils and teachers in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city in an annual ceremony at the city's Peace Hall on Aug. 1. Mourners offered a silent prayer at 11:02 a.m., the time the bomb exploded over the city on Aug. 9, 1945.

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Nagasaki urges nuke elimination as city marks 77th A-bomb anniv.

Nagasaki marked the 77th anniversary Tuesday of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city during World War II, with Mayor Tomihisa Taue calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons amid mounting concern over their potential use following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A moment of silence was observed at 11:02 a.m., the exact time on Aug. 9, 1945, when a plutonium bomb codenamed "Fat Man" dropped by a U.S. bomber exploded over the port city, only the second time a nuclear weapon has been used in war. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who represents a constituency in Hiroshima and has expressed readiness to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons, said, "Even in the midst of a severe security situation, we must continue our history of non-use of nuclear weapons and continue to make Nagasaki the site of the last atomic bombing."

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77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2022, the exact time when a U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 77 years earlier in the closing days of World War II, as the southwestern Japan city holds its annual ceremony in the Peace Park.

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77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at the Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2022, the exact time when a U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on the southwestern Japan city 77 years earlier in the closing days of World War II.

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77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida observes a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2022, the exact time when a U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 77 years earlier in the closing days of World War II, as the southwestern Japan city holds its annual ceremony in the Peace Park.

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77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at the Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2022, the exact time when a U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on the southwestern Japan city 77 years earlier in the closing days of World War II.

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76th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2021, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 76 years ago, during the annual ceremony at Peace Park in the southwestern Japan city. (Pool photo)

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Wall clock donated to Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman in the city of Nagasaki has donated a wall clock (in photo) that stopped at the moment of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at around 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, museum officials said on Oct. 12. The clock, which has almost no scratches or cracks, was in her home at the time of the explosion. The home was located some 5 kilometers from the center of the blast. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki marks 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - People observe a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m. during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki marks 70th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

People offer a moment of silent prayer at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2015, the exact time the U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 70 years ago, during a ceremony at the Peace Park in the Japanese city to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city.

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) observes a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, during the annual ceremony at Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, at the park marking the hypocenter in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, at the park marking the hypocenter in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, during the annual ceremony at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. (Pool photo)

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, during the annual ceremony at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. (Pool photo)

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, during the annual ceremony at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. (Pool photo)

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, during the annual ceremony at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2020, the exact time when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the United States 75 years earlier, during the annual ceremony at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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Nagasaki marks 73rd anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) offers silent prayers during a ceremony at Peace Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2018, the exact time the U.S. atomic bomb exploded over the southwestern Japan city 73 years ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bag, watch from Japan's A-bomb museums to be displayed in Oslo

Photo taken Nov. 17, 2017, shows a watch that has been stopped at 11:02 a.m. since the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Items including the watch from the atomic bomb museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be put on display in Oslo in commemoration of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Hiroshima museum said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki commemorates 71st anniversary of atomic bombing

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) offers silent prayers during a ceremony at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2016, the exact time the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city 71 years ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bombed 10 minutes earlier than believed: expert

NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo shows the mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Shigeo Motoyama, a senior official of the Nagasaki Marine Observatory, said that judging by a steep jump in air pressure recorded by equipment located 4 kilometers from ground zero on the day of the bombing, the bomb could have been dropped at around 10:52 a.m., 10 minutes earlier than the current official time of 11:02 a.m.

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Nagasaki mourns death of 5,500 school A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki citizens mourn the death of about 5,500 pupils and teachers in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city in an annual ceremony at the city's Peace Hall on Aug. 1. Mourners offered a silent prayer at 11:02 a.m., the time the bomb exploded over the city on Aug. 9, 1945.