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[Breaking News]Streetcar that survived 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan, July 27 Kyodo - Video taken in Hiroshima on July 27, 2025, shows a streetcar that is still in use despite suffering damage in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city. (Kyodo)

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Streetcar that survived 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing

Photo taken in Hiroshima on July 27, 2025, shows a streetcar that is still in use despite suffering damage in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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

HIROSHIMA, Japan, July 16 Kyodo - 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. (Kyodo)

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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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Wartime Japan PM Kantaro Suzuki

Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on July 28, 1945, two days after the United States, Britain and the Republic of China issued a document known as the Potsdam Declaration calling for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.

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A-bomb survivor Sasamori

Photo taken on July 29, 2022, shows a portrait of Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city of Hiroshima who underwent reconstructive surgery for her scars in the United States. The New York Times reported on Jan. 2, 2025, that she died on Dec. 15, 2024, at her home in Marina del Rey, California. She was 92.

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher presents a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 5, 2023. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Harbi

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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New evidence of Japan's germ war atrocities made public in NE China

STORY: New evidence of Japan's germ war atrocities made public in NE China DATELINE: Aug. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:25 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the "Original Book of the Harbin First Army Hospital of the Japanese Army" 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIN SHICHENG, Researcher STORYLINE: A new evidence of human experiments and germ war crimes by Japan's notorious Unit 731 was revealed for the first time at a symposium held on Saturday in Mudanjiang City, northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province. The new evidence, called the "Original Book of the Harbin First Army Hospital of the Japanese Army," is a detailed record of the establishment, operation, decline and demobilization of the hospital from July 1941 to October 1945. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIN SHICHENG, Researcher "The document helped us understand the relationship between the hospital and Unit 731. Through the study and research on the new archives, we've found that the establishment and expansion of Unit 731 not

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Qu Dongyu re-elected as FAO director-general

STORY: Qu Dongyu re-elected as FAO director-general DATELINE: July 2, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 43rd session of the FAO Conference in Rome STORYLINE: Qu Dongyu was re-elected as director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Sunday during the ongoing 43rd session of the FAO Conference in Rome. Qu was first elected in June 2019 to head the UN agency and is the first Chinese national to serve in the position. Since assuming office, Qu has actively led the FAO to address the challenges concerning global food security and contribute to the food and agricultural development of all countries, especially developing countries. His efforts have been extensively recognized by FAO member nations. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is a specialized UN agency leading cooperation in food and agriculture. The organization plays a vital role in global food and agricultural policy exchanges, standard-set

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A-bomb victim in Brazil speaks to high school students

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kunihiko Bonkohara (R), vice president of the Association of Atomic Bomb Victims in Brazil, speaks to students at a high school in Sao Paulo on July 21, 2014, about his exposure to radiation from the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, western Japan, in 1945.

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A-bomb victim shows dark mark left on arm after treatment

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yoshitaka Samejima (R) shows in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 20, 2014, dark marks left on his right arm following medical treatment long after exposure to radiation from the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, in 1945, as his wife looks on.

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A-bomb victim in Brazil speaks to high school students

FUKUOKA, Japan - Junko Watanabe (R) speaks in Portuguese to students at a high school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 21, 2014, about her childhood exposure to radiation from the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy to attend Hiroshima A-bomb ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Undated photo shows U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy. Kennedy will attend the annual ceremony in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 to mark the anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, sources familiar with the matter said July 31, 2014.

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Yoko Ono visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Artist Yoko Ono (R) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui hold up a folded paper crane in each hand at a peace event in the city of Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 30, 2014. The 81-year-old widow of former Beatle John Lennon asked participants to spread to the world the experience of Hiroshima, which was devastated by a U.S.-dropped atomic bomb in 1945 in World War II.

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Choir practices to restage post-A-bomb service

TOKYO, Japan - Choral singers practice a Messiah chorus at Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima in this file photo taken on July 13, 2014, preparing to restage a choir service held by the church in December 1947 in the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The service is set for December.

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Choral singers practice to restage post-A-bomb service

TOKYO, Japan - Choral singers practice a Messiah chorus at Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima in this file photo taken on July 13, 2014, preparing to restage a choir service held by the church in December 1947 in the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The service is set for December.

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Victims of pumpkin bombs commemorated in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Children pray for the victims of "pumpkin bombs," conventional bombs almost the same weight and shape of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, in front of a monument in Osaka on July 26, 2014, after a memorial service. A total of 49 such bombs are believed to have been dropped in Japan between July and August 1945 during World War II.

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Photos taken 16 months after Nagasaki A-bombing exhibited

NAGASAKI, Japan - A total of 26 photos of the surroundings of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, including the ground zero location, taken some 16 months after the Aug. 9, 1945, blast and kept by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, are exhibited at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, from July 23, 2014, for a two-month run.

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Curator explains photo of A-bomb-hit Nagasaki taken in 1946

NAGASAKI, Japan - A curator of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum explains on July 23, 2014, about one of the 26 pictures taken about a year and four months after the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The pictures, originally kept by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, are on display at the museum until Sept. 28.

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A-bombed student uniform dusted off

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A staff member at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, dusts off a student's clothes on July 16, 2014, during the annual cleaning of exhibits involved in the 1945 atomic bombing.

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A-bombed lunch box put back into showcase after cleaning

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A staff member at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, places a blackened lunch box back into a showcase on July 16, 2014, after dusting it off during the annual cleaning of exhibits involved in the 1945 atomic bombing.

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Hiroshima city looking for families of A-bomb victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Hiroshima municipal government puts up a poster in its office on July 16, 2014, to seek information on families for the unaccepted remains of identified 1945 atomic-bombing victims.

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Japanese A-bomb survivor to share experience in Kazakhstan

NAGASAKI, Japan - Shohei Tsuiki, an A-bomb survivor in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, talks at a press conference at the Nagasaki municipal office on July 10, 2014, about an exhibition of the 1945 blast planned in three cities in Kazakhstan from Aug. 6 to Sept. 30.

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A-bomb survivors protest U.S. test

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 1945 atomic bombing survivors and other protesters stage a sit-in near a cenotaph for atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima on Nov. 1, 2013, after the United States revealed it had conducted an experiment using a small amount of plutonium to examine the capabilities of its nuclear weapons between July and September 2013.

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A-bomb survivors protest U.S. test

NAGASAKI, Japan - The 1945 atomic bombing survivors and other protesters stage a sit-in near the Peace Statue in Nagasaki on Nov. 1, 2013, after the United States revealed it had conducted an experiment using a small amount of plutonium to examine the capabilities of its nuclear weapons between July and September 2013.

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Prince Akishino, Princess Mako in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Prince Akishino and his eldest daughter Princess Mako offer flowers at the monument marking ground zero in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki at Peace Park in Nagasaki City on July 30, 2013.

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Ballerina Morishita continues to dance for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Ballerina Yoko Morishita gives an interview with Kyodo News on July 13, 2013. One of Japan's leading ballet dancers, she was born in Hiroshima three years after the 1945 atomic bombing on the western Japan city.

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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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Poet from Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kozaburo Nagatsu, a poet from Hiroshima Prefecture, is interviewed by Kyodo News on July 9, 2013 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Nagatsu has been writing poems for years as he wants people to know the sorrow of tens of thousands of people who died instantly in the 1945 atomic bombing on Hiroshima.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Sayaka Takahashi from Ishinomaki, one of the cities most severely damaged by the 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan, speaks before departing aboard a ship from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 disaster, including Takahashi, departed on an 85-day around-the-world voyage organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shigeko Sasamori, who survived the 1945 U.S atomic bombing of Hiroshima at age 13, speaks before departing aboard a ship from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including Sasamori, and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, departed on an 85-day around-the-world voyage organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Participants of an 85-day voyage around the world, organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, pose for photos before departing from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan are among the participants of the voyage to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A ship departs on an 85-day voyage around the world from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan are among the participants of the voyage, organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

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A-bomb survivor, anti-nuke movement leader Yamaguchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 2005 shows Senji Yamaguchi, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki and a leading figure in Japan's anti-nuclear movement. Yamaguchi died of pneumonia at a hospital in Nagasaki Prefecture on July 6, 2013, his family said. He was 82.

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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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Writer of well-known A-bomb comic book 'Barefoot Gen' dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2011 shows Keiji Nakazawa, author of "Hadashi no Gen" (Barefoot Gen), an iconic Japanese comic about the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing. Nakazawa died of lung cancer on Dec. 19 at a hospital in the western Japanese city, people close to him said Dec. 25, 2012. He was 73.

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Old bomb shelter in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - A man examines an air-raid shelter in Nagasaki on July 30, 2012. The city of Nagasaki opened to a local civic group four air-raid shelters discovered the previous year near ground zero of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city during World War II.

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Old bomb shelter in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - A man examines an air-raid shelter in Nagasaki on July 30, 2012. The city of Nagasaki opened to a local civic group four air-raid shelters discovered the previous year near ground zero of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city during World War II.

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A-bomb storyteller Takahashi dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2009 shows Akihiro Takahashi, former director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Takahashi, known for sharing his first-hand account of the 1945 atomic bombing, died of heart failure on Nov. 1, 2011, at a Hiroshima city hospital aged 80, the municipal government said the following day.

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Nagasaki peace statue cleaned

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Peace Statue in Nagasaki Peace Park is cleaned on July 16, 2011, ahead of the anniversary of the Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Hiroshima survivor writer encourages Fukushima children

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children books writer Masamoto Nasu shake hands with students at Nakahata Elementary School in the town of Yabuki, Fukushima Prefecture on July 12, 2011. Nasu, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, encouraged the children not to live in irrational fear of the radiation released by the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Power Station, badly damaged by explosions after an earthquake and tsunami in March.

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A-bomb artifact sold for 45 pounds at auction amid criticism

LINCOLN, Britain - Auctioneers explain an artifact from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945 which was put up for auction July 11 in Lincoln and sold for 45 pounds (about 6,700 yen). An 81-year-old British man decided to sell a roof tile from a Buddhist temple which was damaged by the explosion. He was given the piece by Sairenji's priest as a gift when he traveled to Hiroshima in 1952.

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19 plaintiffs recognized as A-bomb radiation disease sufferers

KUMAMOTO, Japan - The plaintiffs and their supporters celebrate outside the Kumamoto District Court on July 30 after the court repealed most of the state decision not to recognize 21 people in Kumamoto Prefecture who suffered in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as radiation casualties. The court recognized 19 of 21 plaintiffs as radiation disease sufferers. Of 250,000 people certified under Japanese law as atomic bomb victims as of March 31, only 2,242 have been recognized as suffering from illnesses caused by radiation from the atomic bombings, according to Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry data.