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Mass oyster die-offs in Hiroshima Pref.

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Norikazu Suzuki (far L) inspects an oyster bed in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Nov. 19, 2025, following reports of mass die-offs at many oyster beds in the western Japan city.

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Mass oyster die-offs in Hiroshima Pref.

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Norikazu Suzuki (R) is briefed from an oyster farmer in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Nov. 19, 2025, following reports of mass die-offs at many oyster beds in the western Japan city.

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Mass oyster die-offs in Hiroshima Pref.

Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Norikazu Suzuki (front, R) inspects oysters during a visit to an oyster farm in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Nov. 19, 2025, following reports of mass die-offs at many oyster beds in the western Japan city.

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Peace mural on Hiroshima airport exterior wall

MIHARA, Japan, Oct. 16 Kyodo - Mexican sibling artists Adry del Rocio and Carlos Alberto pose for a photo with Toshiyuki Mimaki , a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, on Oct. 15, 2025, at a ceremony marking the completion of a mural depicting a world free of nuclear weapons, on an exterior wall of Hiroshima airport's terminal building in Mihra, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo)

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Cultured oysters in Hiroshima

Oysters are brought up from the waters off Hatsukaichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 20, 2025, as the new season to harvest cultured oysters begins.

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Cultured oysters in Hiroshima

Oysters are brought up from the waters off Hatsukaichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 20, 2025, as the new season to harvest cultured oysters begins.

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Peace mural on Hiroshima airport external wall

Photo taken in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 15, 2025, shows a mural drawn on an external wall of Hiroshima airport by Mexican sibling artists Adry del Rocio and Carlos Alberto, unveiled the same day at a ceremony marking its completion depicting a world free of nuclear weapons. ==Kyodo

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Peace mural on Hiroshima airport exterior wall

Mexican sibling artists Adry del Rocio (7th from R) and Carlos Alberto (5th from R) pose for a photo with Toshiyuki Mimaki (6th from R), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, on Oct. 15, 2025, at a ceremony marking the completion of a mural depicting a world free of nuclear weapons, on an exterior wall of Hiroshima airport's terminal building in Mihra, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Japan: Hiroshima Pauses for Moment of Silence on 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing

Hiroshima marked 80 years on Wednesday, August 6, since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city, holding its annual ceremony at Peace Memorial Park. At 8:15 a.m., the exact 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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Mushroom cloud (A few minutes after detonation)

Mushroom cloud captured a few minutes after the detonation of the atomic bomb; taken about 6.5 kilometers northeast of the hypocenter. According to records held by the United States Armed Forces, the cloud billowed to 9,000 meters in the sky within three minutes of the blast. The photograph was taken by Seiso Yamada, then 17, who was walking to visit Mikumari Gorge in Fuchu-cho, Aki County in Hiroshima Prefecture, with his friends. They were watching a B-29 and a parachute in the sky from the entrance to the gorge when a flash, a rumbling of the ground, and a roar suddenly hit them. Trees in the pine forest around them shook violently from the blast, and a huge mushroom cloud rose rapidly, which he photographed with a Japan-made camera he had brought with him. (The parachute Mr. Yamada saw is believed to have been the blast measurement instrumentation dropped by one of the planes accompanying the Enola Gay.) **Editorial use only, Commercial use not possible**, Credit: Seiso Yamada/Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Emperor, empress visit Hiroshima

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako wave from a car to well-wishers upon their arrival at Hiroshima Airport in Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Hiroshima

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrive at Hiroshima Airport in Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Hiroshima

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from R) and Empress Masako arrive at Hiroshima Airport in Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress head for Hiroshima

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako prepare to board a plane at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 19, 2025, for a visit to Hiroshima Prefecture to pay their respects to atomic bomb victims ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Emperor, empress head for Hiroshima

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako prepare to board a plane at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 19, 2025, for a visit to Hiroshima Prefecture to pay their respects to atomic bomb victims ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Emperor, empress head for Hiroshima

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako prepare to board a plane at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 19, 2025, for a visit to Hiroshima Prefecture to pay their respects to atomic bomb victims ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Undomesticated rabbits on western Japan island

Rabbits are seen on Okuno Island, home to about 1,000 rabbits, in Takehara in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 22, 2025. The non-native rabbits, which were brought to the island in the 1970s and became undomesticated, attract tourists.

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Undomesticated rabbits on western Japan island

Rabbits are seen on Okuno Island, home to about 1,000 rabbits, in Takehara in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 22, 2025. The non-native rabbits, which were brought to the island in the 1970s and became undomesticated, attract tourists.

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Undomesticated rabbits on western Japan island

A rabbit is seen on Okuno Island, home to about 1,000 rabbits, in Takehara in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 22, 2025. The non-native rabbits, which were brought to the island in the 1970s and became undomesticated, attract tourists.

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Undomesticated rabbits on western Japan island

Rabbits are seen on Okuno Island in Takehara in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 22, 2025. The introduced rabbits, brought to the island in the 1970s to become undomesticated, attract tourists.

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Baseball: Timoniel Perez, Alfonso Soriano of Carp

Photo taken on Feb. 19, 1996, shows Japanese professional baseball team Hiroshima Carp's Timoniel Perez (R) and Alfonso Soriano, both from the Dominican Republic, in Nichinan in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Indo-Pacific finless porpoise

Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2025, shows Indo-Pacific finless porpoises at Miyajima Public Aquarium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Indo-Pacific finless porpoise

Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2025, shows Indo-Pacific finless porpoises at Miyajima Public Aquarium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golden cuttlefish

Photo shows golden cuttlefish at Miyajima Public Aquarium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 24, 2025.

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Golden cuttlefish

Photo shows golden cuttlefish at Miyajima Public Aquarium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 24, 2025.

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School of anchovies

A school of anchovies is pictured at Miyajima Public Aquarium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 24, 2025.

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Bigfin reef squid

Bigfin reef squid swim in a water tank at Miyajima Public Aquarium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 25, 2025.

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Submarine Raigei delivered to MSDF

Photo taken on March 6, 2025, shows the submarine Raigei following a ceremony marking its delivery to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force at a shipyard of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. in Kobe, western Japan. The 84-meter submarine weighing about 3,000 tons will be deployed at the MSDF's base in Kure in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima.

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Submarine Raigei delivered to MSDF

Photo taken on March 6, 2025, shows the submarine Raigei following a ceremony marking its delivery to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force at a shipyard of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. in Kobe, western Japan. The 84-meter submarine weighing about 3,000 tons will be deployed at the MSDF's base in Kure in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima.

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[Breaking News]Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

ETAJIMA, Japan, Jan. 17 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side. (Kyodo)

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Carp manager's mental training in front of fire

Takahiro Arai, manager of Japanese pro baseball club Hiroshima Carp, chants a Buddhist sutra in front of a fire for about two hours at Shojoshin-in temple in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Koya, western Japan, on Jan. 18, 2025. The Central League club manager took part in offseason mental training ahead of spring training camp starting in February.

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Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side.

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Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range (bottom) in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side.

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Mountain fire caused after MSDF training

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountain fire near a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force shooting range (lower R) in Etajima in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025. A fire occurred at the shooting range earlier in the day as MSDF personnel conducted underwater mine-disposing training using an explosive, spreading to the mountain side.

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30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit to form the date "1.17" on the bank of a river near the Atomic Bomb Dome (back) at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, and its vicinity, killing more than 6,400 people.

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30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit on the bank of a river near the Atomic Bomb Dome (back) at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, and its vicinity, killing more than 6,400 people.

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Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Photo taken on May 9, 2015, shows rabbits in front of a defunct facility on a tiny island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, that supplied electricity to a nearby poison gas factory run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1929 and 1945. The rabbits, brought to the island in the Seto Inland Sea after World War II, draw many tourists.

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Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Photo taken on Oct. 20, 2023, shows a cenotaph built on a tiny island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in memory of those who died after falling ill following their exposure to poison gas. Over 6,000 workers and students were mobilized to work at a poison gas factory on the island in the Seto Inland Sea run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1929 and 1945.

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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 12 Kyodo - Jiro Hamasumi (far L), who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo)

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Atomic bomb survivor Fumiko Hashizume (L), 93, from Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, describes her experiences in Hiroshima during an event in Oslo co-hosted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, on Dec. 9, 2024, the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Atomic bomb survivor Fumiko Hashizume, 93, from Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, describes her experiences in Hiroshima during an event in Oslo co-hosted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, on Dec. 9, 2024, the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Atomic bomb survivor Fumiko Hashizume (L), 93, from Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, describes her experiences in Hiroshima during an event in Oslo co-hosted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, on Dec. 9, 2024, the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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Campaign for Tokyo gubernatorial election

Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, makes a speech in Tokyo on June 22, 2024, during his campaign for the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

(From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, pose for photos before a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.(Kyodo)

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Tokyo governor race begins

Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, makes his first stump speech in Tokyo on June 20, 2024, as official campaigning for the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital began the same day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, on June 19, 2024, speaks on June 19, 2024, during a joint press conference for candidates running in the July 7 Tokyo gubernatorial election at the Japan National Press Club in the capital.