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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Hiroshima marks A-bomb anniversary, lanterns floated in memory

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lanterns being released into Motoyasu River in the evening of Aug. 6 in memory of the people who died from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. At the background is the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, ground zero of the atomic bomb which exploded over the city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Italian motorcyclists begin journey to Hiroshima via Belarus

VENICE, Italy - The Marco Polo Team of three Italian motorcyclists, led by lawyer Michele Orlando (R), shows paper cranes made by Italian children at Plaza San Marco in Venice on Aug. 3 before leaving the city on a 20,000-kilometer trans-Eurasian journey to Hiroshima via Belarus to campaign against radiation tragedies. The motorbikers will deliver paper cranes to a monument dedicated to a Japanese girl who died at age 12 as a result of the wartime atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

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A-bomb survivor to visit NY for nuke-free appeal

OSAKA, Japan - Masakazu Saito, a 90-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, stands at his home in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in October 2014, speaking of his decision to visit New York next spring during the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In the background is his collection of antique clocks, all with their handles stopped at 8:15, the time when the bomb was dropped on the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Participants in anti-A-bomb confab pray for victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Participants in a meeting held in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, by the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs offer silent prayers on Aug. 6, 2014, for the victims of atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945.

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Concert with piano that survived A-bombing held in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A piano owned by atomic bomb survivor Morio Iwata (2nd from rear R) is played at a concert in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, on the 69th anniversary of the bombing. The piano also survived the 1945 blast.

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A-bomb survivor to deliver English speech to NPDI FMs

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Keiko Ogura is photographed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on April 9, 2014, before she speaks about her experience of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, at a meeting by foreign ministers of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative in the city on April 12, 2014.

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Letters by Hiroshima governor around 1945 A-bombing found

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 17, 2014, shows four letters written between June and October 1945 by Genshin Takano (1895-1969), the governor of Hiroshima when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945. The letters were discovered at the Hiroshima Prefectural Archives.

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"Barefoot Gen" director

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Ishida, who directed "Barefoot Gen's Hiroshima," gives an interview with Kyodo News on July 6, 2013 in Tokyo. The documentary film is about Keiji Nakazawa who wrote the manga series "Barefoot Gen" based on his own experience from the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing on Hiroshima.

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'Barefoot Gen' marks 40th anniversary of publication

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken July 6, 2011, shows the late Keiji Nakazawa, author of "Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen)," a Japanese manga series describing the life of a 6-year-old boy called Gen before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The series marked the 40th anniversary of its publication in 2013. Nakazawa died in December 2012.

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'Barefoot Gen' marks 40th anniversary of publication

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Misayo Nakazawa, widow of Keiji Nakazawa, is seen in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on June 11, 2013, sitting in front of magazines and other publications that carried her late husband's manga series "Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen)." The series describes the life of a 6-year-old boy called Gen before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Piece of A-bomb-scorched clothing

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at the Ground Self-Defense Force Medical School in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward shows a piece of clothing (bottom) scorched in the shape of diamond patterns by the heat rays of the 1945 atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, and an explanatory text about it (above). The item was apparently brought back to Tokyo from Hiroshima by a research team of the former imperial Japanese army that was sent to the western Japanese city immediately after the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, according to school officials.

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A-bomb surviving bonsai from Hiroshima

KYOTO, Japan - A man marvels at a bonsai tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at an exhibition in Kyoto on Nov. 25, 2011. It was the public debut of the black pine tree, estimated to be 300-400 years old, which was placed at about 2.5 kilometers from the hypocenter of the atomic blast on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Hiroshima marks 66th anniv. of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R, front) and other people participating in a ceremony in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to commemorate the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city, offer prayers at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2011, the exact moment of the attack 66 years ago.

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Lanterns in memory of A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A junior high school student releases a lantern on the Motoyasu River running in front of the A-Bomb Dome (background) in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010, in commemoration of the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Lanterns in memory of A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lanterns in many colors float on the Motoyasu River running in front of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010, in commemoration of the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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U.N. chief Ban in Hiroshima for A-bomb ceremony

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) listens to survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima during a meeting in the city Aug. 6, 2010. Ban attended a ceremony the same day to mark the 65th anniversary of the attack.

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Ban mourns Korean A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L), a South Korean national, and his wife Yoo Soon Taek (next to Ban) offer a moment of silent prayer after laying flowers at a cenotaph for Korean victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010.

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U.N. chief Ban in Hiroshima for A-bomb ceremony

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon delivers a speech in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010, after attending a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city. Ban renewed his vow to work for the abolition of nuclear arms.

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Hiroshima 65th A-bomb anniversary

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) dedicates a list of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing to a cenotaph during a ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park in the city on Aug. 6, 2010. The list contained the names of 5,501 people newly recognized in the past year as victims of the bombing.

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Curator says showing damage of A-bomb with B-29 bomber 'challenging'

WASHINGTON, United States - Dik Daso, curator for modern military aircraft, is interviewed in late April at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, with the restored Enola Gay B-29 bomber which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 being exhibited on his back.

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Lanterns released as Hiroshima marks A-bomb anniversary

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lanterns are released on the Motoyasu River on the evening of Aug. 6 in memory of the people who died as a result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. In the background is the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, ground zero when the bomb exploded over the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Aso arrives in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is photographed at JR Hiroshima Station in the city of Hiroshima on Aug. 5. The premier came to the western Japan city to attend a ceremony commemorating the 64th anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bomb attack.

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Hiroshima ceremony commemorates Korean A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Korean residents in Japan wearing traditional Korean costumes dance during a ceremony in front of a cenotaph for Korean victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 5 to commemorate the Korean victims of the wartime atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Hiroshima ceremony commemorates Korean A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Korean residents in Japan wearing tradition Korean costume dance during a ceremony in front of a cenotaph for the Korean victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 5 to commemorate Korean victims of the wartime atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Italian motorcyclists offer paper cranes at Hiroshima monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Marco Polo Team of three Italian motorcyclists offer paper cranes made by Italian children at a monument dedicated to a Japanese girl who died at age 12 as a result of the atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945. The motorcyclists arrived in Hiroshima after a 17,000-kilometer trans-Eurasian journey from Italy via Belarus to campaign against radiation tragedies.

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Witness account of Hiroshima bombing sent to Manhattan Project head

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows copies of an eyewitness account written by the Rev. John A. Siemes (1907-1983), a German priest of the Society of Jesus, of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Time magazine that carried the account. A recently discovered document shows that the priest's account was sent in autumn of 1945 to U.S. Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project.

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(1)Hibakusha use NPT confab as platform to promote peace message

New York, United States - Satoru Konishi, international director of Hidankyo, a confederation of A-bomb and H-bomb sufferers, recounts events on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped an A-bomb on Hiroshima, for some 200 high school students in New York on May 23.

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Japan film on Hiroshima A-bomb 'Face of Jizo' premieres in U.S.

BOSTON, United States - A Japanese film depicting the struggles of a Japanese woman, who survives the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, premiered in the United States on April 21 at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology theater as part of the Global Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) Film Festival being held in Boston on April 14-24. Photo shows A-bomb survivors responding to questions from the film audience after the show.

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(2)Pictures of A-bombed U.S. soldiers registered at Hiroshima hall

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This photo of U.S. airman Durden Looper (L, back), who died in the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, was registered at the national A-bomb victims memorial hall in Hiroshima on July 29. Looper from Arkansas was held prisoner after his plane was shot down off Kure in the same prefecture on July 28, 1945.

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(1)Pictures of U.S. A-bomb victim registered at Hiroshima hall

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This photo of U.S. airman Hugh Atkinson, who died in the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, was registered at the national A-bomb victims memorial hall in Hiroshima on July 29. Atkinson from Washington was held prisoner in Hiroshima with a comrade after his plane was shot down off Kure in the same prefecture on July 28, 1945.

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Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows an area near the Atomic Bomb Dome at the epicenter of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima. The photo was taken on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Imprint of human body on Hiroshima bridge

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows the outline in white of a human body on a bridge at the time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Due to the intense heat and radiation from the bomb, only the imprint of the person remained. The photo was taken on Aug. 6, 1945.

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U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo taken from the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce shows central Hiroshima City in ruins after the U.S. atomic bombing. The photo was taken on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Hiroshima to mark 58th year since U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - People swing lights in front of the A-Bombed Dome in Hiroshima on Aug. 5 on the eve of the 58th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Antinuclear torch relay begins in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An antinuclear torch relay begins in Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19 to underscore the hope that the world will be free of war and nuclear attacks during the 21st century. A 12-member leadoff group of runners started the 20th relay from Hiroshima Peace Park at 8:15 a.m., the time the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The relay will cover about 1,816 kilometers in the prefecture, ending on July 26.

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New Zealand's Premier Clark visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark puts her name in the visitors' book after touring the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on April 15. Clark said she was moved by the items placed there to convey the trauma that civilians suffered during and after the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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Native American completes 1,000-km peace walk to Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tom Dostou (2nd from R), a 56-year-old Wabanaki Indian, poses at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 6 after completing a 1,000-kilometer ''peace walk'' from Tokyo. He joined dozens of peace activists from around the world on Oct. 13 to carry a ''peace flame'' (laid in front) to Hiroshima. The flame was originally lit from fires ignited by the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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Lanterns float in memory of Hiroshima A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Watched by crowds of well-wishers on the bank, lanterns float down the Motoyasu River in downtown Hiroshima on Aug. 6 in memory of the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 54 years ago. At the background stands the Hiroshima Dome, the city's official relic of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic attack.

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Hiroshima children appeal for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Children make an appeal for a world without war and nuclear weapons at an international ban-the-bomb conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 4. The rally was held to mark the anniversary of the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Truman's handwritten consent on A-bomb statement found

WASHINGTON, United States - This is a handwritten message by U.S. President Harry Truman consenting to the language of a statement he was to release after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. The original copy of the message, sent in reply to a cable from Secretary of war Henry Stimson, has been found in the Harry S. Truman Library in Missouri. Written on the back of the cable, the message reads, ''Release when ready but not sooner than Aug. 2.''