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[Breaking News]80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan, Aug. 9 Kyodo - High school students hold hands while surrounding the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II. (Kyodo)

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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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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Waleed Siam, representative of the Permanent General Mission of Palestine in Japan, prepares to lay flowers at the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2025, the eve of the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Israeli Ambassador to Japan Gilad Cohen prepares to lay flowers at the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2025, the eve of the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Lanterns are lit near the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack during World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Lanterns are lit near the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack during World War II.

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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

High school students hold hands while surrounding the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Paper cranes are placed with messages against nuclear weapons in the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Paper cranes are placed with messages against nuclear weapons in the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Paper cranes are placed with messages against nuclear weapons in the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the attack in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Lanterns are lit in the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2025, the eve of the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Ambassadors to Japan head to the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, to lay flowers on Aug. 8, 2025, the eve of the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Paper cranes are placed in the park marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2025, the eve of the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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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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Hidankyo representative at Nagasaki rally

Shigemitsu Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, prays at the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki ahead of a gathering to report on the prize in the southwestern Japan city on Dec. 24, 2024.

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Hidankyo representative at Nagasaki rally

Shigemitsu Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, delivers a speech in front of the cenotaph marking the hypocenter of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki during a gathering to report on the prize in the southwestern Japan city on Dec. 24, 2024.

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

Lanterns are placed in Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2024, on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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

Lanterns are placed in Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2024, on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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

Lanterns are placed in Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2024, on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki

Foreign envoys to Japan line up to offer flowers at the cenotaph at Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2024, the day before the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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ICAN executive director in Nagasaki

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, prays at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at Hypocenter Park in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki, on Jan. 21, 2024.

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Wrecked Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now the A-bomb Dome) and Aioi Bridge

The wrecked Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (right) and Aioi Bridge (left), which was the target of the atomic bomb. The wreckage of Japanese Red Cross Society Hiroshima Branch's building can be seen between the Industrial Promotion Hall and the bridge. The ruined Industrial Promotion Hall became known as the “A-bomb Dome" after the war. Yoshito Matsushige, who took this photograph, recalled, "I think it was the first. (Distance from hypocenter 150meters) Photo taken in September 1945, by Yoshito Matsushige, Chugoku Shimbun. **Editorial use only, Commercial use not possible**, Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Barbershop with the window frame blown off

A barbershop in Midori-machi (now Nishimidori-machi in Minami Ward) destroyed by the blast, with the window frame blown off and the interior, including mirrors, shattered. It was the home-cum-shop of Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer who took this picture. The barbershop was run by his younger sister and her husband, and Sumie, Matsushige's then 29-year-old wife, who appears in the scene, helped them with the business. Sumie was pregnant at the time and gave birth to their second daughter the following year. His eldest daughter and parents were evacuated to Omishima Island in Ehime Prefecture at the time. (Distance from hypocenter 2800 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Police officer writing out victim certificates

Tokuo Fujita, then 28, a police officer from the Ujina Police Station, surrounded by victims, is writing out victim certificates for survivors in front of the Hiroshima District Monopoly Bureau, located on the east side of Miyuki Bridge. The desk was placed on the south side of the "Minami-machi 3-chome" streetcar stop (now called "Minami-machi 6-chome"). Mr. Fujita, who had just finished working the night shift, experienced the atomic bombing at the police station about 4.7 kilometers from the hypocenter. His forehead was cut by broken window glass, but he rushed to the police box on the west side of Miyuki Bridge and helped injured citizens and students. (Distance from hypocenter 2400 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Central part of the city reduced to ashes as seen from Kyobashi Bridge

The central part of the city reduced to ashes as seen from Kyobashi Bridge (1.4 kilometers northeast of the hypocenter) on the southwest side of the Hiroshima Station. The building with a tower on the far left is the head office of the Chugoku Shimbun, on its right is Fukuya Department Store, and the structure behind the tree in the center right is Hiroshima Central Broadcasting. Three photographs taken from the railings of Kyobashi Bridge over the Kyobashi River were stitched together for this picture. (Distance from hypocenter 1400 meters.) Photo taken in November 1945, by Yoshito Matsushige, Chugoku Shimbun. **Editorial use only, Commercial use not possible**, Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Devastation at the west end of Miyuki Bridge (Panoramic view)

At the west end of Miyuki Bridge, 2.2 kilometers southeast of the hypocenter. A police officer from the Ujina Police Station had begun to administer first aid by applying oil stored in the station to the wounds of the injured men and women of all ages who had taken refuge there. Men and women collapsed or squatting, a woman holding a baby, female students receiving first aid, and a police officer are captured in the photo. The railings on the lower river side (left side) of the bridge had been blown into the river. The building on the left is the Senda-machi Police Box of the Ujina Police Station, and the building in the back is Hiroshima Technical Institute. Miyuki Bridge, connecting Senda-machi and Minami-machi, is one of the major bridges in Hiroshima City, on which streetcars also run. (Distance from hypocenter 2200 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Devastation at the west end of Miyuki Bridge (Close-up)

People suffering burns received dabs of transformer oil brought from the nearby Hiroshima Electric Railway. The girl in the foreground, wearing a sailorstyle uniform with a triangular collar, and the girl to her left were second-year students at Hiroshima Girls' Commercial School (then 13 years old) who experienced the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Postal Savings Bureau in Senda-machi 1-chome, where they were mobilized to work, but survived. The boy second to the right of the police officer from the Ujina Police Station was a first-year student at Hiroshima Municipal Junior High School (then 12 years old) who experienced the atomic bombing in Koami-cho (now part of Naka Ward), where he was helping to demolish buildings to create fire lanes. It is believed he was on his way to his home in Danbarasuehiro-cho (now Danbara in Minami Ward), where he lived with his parents. He went missing and his remains were never found. (Distance from hypocenter 2200 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Collapsed Minami Branch of Nishi Fire Station

The view from the destroyed window of the home-cum-barbershop looking east. The Minami Branch of the Nishi Fire Station, a two-story wooden structure, collapsed in the blast and was reduced to rubble. A man in a national defense uniform walks toward Miyuki Bridge along the street on which ran the Ujina Line streetcars. (Distance from hypocenter 2800 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Photo taken on Aug. 9, 2023, shows the Nagasaki Dejima Messe conference center in Nagasaki, the venue of a city-hosted ceremony marking the 78th anniversary the same day of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in the closing days of World War II. The ceremony will be held indoors instead of at the city's Peace Park close to the hypocenter of the bombing, due to an approaching typhoon.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Photo taken on Aug. 9, 2023, shows the Nagasaki Dejima Messe conference center in Nagasaki, the venue of a city-hosted ceremony marking the 78th anniversary the same day of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in the closing days of World War II. The ceremony will be held indoors instead of at the city's Peace Park close to the hypocenter of the bombing, due to an approaching typhoon.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Photo shows paper cranes dedicated to the hypocenter cenotaph in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2023, a day before the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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Scene of Nagasaki before 78th A-bomb anniversary

A woman prays in front of the hypocenter cenotaph in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2023, a day before the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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Scene of Nagasaki before 78th A-bomb anniversary

People pray in front of the hypocenter cenotaph in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, 2023, a day before the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city.

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Peace symbol burned in Nagasaki

Police officers and firefighters investigate the scene where folded paper cranes, a symbol for peace, were burned at Hypocenter Park in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on June 13, 2023. A 23-year-old man was arrested on the spot the same day.

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EU ambassador in Nagasaki

Jean-Eric Paquet, the ambassador of the European Union to Japan (2nd from L), and EU member state ambassadors collectively lay a commemorative wreath at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Monument in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan on Feb. 3, 2023.

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Hiroshima church revives 1947 Christmas service

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Some 50 people aged 19 to 85 sing during a Christmas service at the Hiroshima Nagarekawa church on Dec. 13, 2014, in Hiroshima using the same program including prayers and bible readings as the service held at the church on Dec. 24, 1947, two years after the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city in World War II. The original church was located some 800 meters from the hypocenter.

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Emperor, empress visit Nagasaki A-bomb memorial site

NAGASAKI, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko pay a floral tribute at the Nagasaki atomic bombing hypocenter monument at Nagasaki Peace Park in southwestern Japan on Oct. 11, 2014.

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Nagasaki marks 69th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - Candle-lit lanterns are placed in front of a plaque at Ground Zero Hypocenter at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2014, following a ceremony that day to mark the 69th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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A-bomb survivor publishes book, warns of radiation damage

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mitsuo Kodama, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima from within a 1-kilometer radius from the hypocenter and was exposed to an extremely high dosage of approximately 4,600 millisieverts of radiation, poses in front of the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima with his book "Hibakusha, Hiroshima karano Message" (Hibakusha, Message from Hiroshima) on March 25, 2014.

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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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Former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

SEMEY, Kazakhstan - Soldiers stand in an area more than 1 kilometer from the hypocenter of the former Soviet nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 13, 2011.

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Former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

SEMEY, Kazakhstan - A man measures radiation levels in an area more than 1 kilometer from the hypocenter of the former Soviet nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 13, 2011.

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U.S. veterans visit Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - American veterans Richard Ellett (C), John Bankston (R) and Terry Brady, who are board members of the Radiated Veterans of America, lay a wreath at the Hypocenter Cenotaph in Nagasaki on April 12, 2011, for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. Bankston (85) was in Nagasaki after the bombing as a member of the Allied Forces that occupied Japan that surrendered in World War II.

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China ambassador visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (C) holding a wreath heads for the Hypocenter Cenotaph in Nagasaki on Dec. 18, 2010. Cheng said he will tell future generations of the importance of peace.

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Norway's king places wreath at Nagasaki A-bomb monument

NAGASAKI, Japan - Norway's King Harald V on March 30 stands in front of a wreath at a monolith marking a point below the explosion of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. The king and his wife, Queen Sonja, visited Hypocenter Park in the city, where about 100 children welcomed them by waving Japanese and Norwegian flags. The royal couple plans to leave Japan on March 31 after a weeklong visit to the country as state guests.

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Nagasaki observes 54th anniversary of A-bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki observes the 54th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on the southwestern Japanese city on Aug. 9. Some 4,000 people including A-bomb survivors, bereaved families and dignitaries attended the annual Peace Ceremony at the Nagasaki Peace Park near the hypocenter of the bombing, under scorching sun.

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Lanterns float down river for Nagasaki A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Some 500 lanterns float down the Urakami River in the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9 for the victims of the city's atomic bombing 54 years ago. People floated the lanterns near the hypocenter of the bomb.

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Hiroshima commemorates 54th anniversary of A-bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The city of Hiroshima commemorates the 54th anniversary on Aug. 6 of the world's first atomic bombing. Some 50,000 people, including A-bomb victims, bereaved families, and dignitaries gathered at the Peace Memorial Park, near the hypocenter of the bombing, and prayed for those who died from the blast in 1945.

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Memorial held for town obliterated by Hiroshima bomb

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Former residents of a town that was the hypocenter of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, hold a ceremony on July 31 to commemorate a new red granite memorial for the town, offering silent prayers and flowers for A-bomb victims.