Hiroshima resets 'peace clock'

Hiroshima resets 'peace clock'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kenji Shiga, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, looks at a "peace clock" monument on Aug. 21, 2013, at the museum in the city of Hiroshima, which counts the number of days since the last nuclear test. It showed "98" after it was reset the same day as the city learned of a U.S. experiment in May using plutonium to examine the capabilities of nuclear weapons.

Hiroshima resets 'peace clock'

Hiroshima resets 'peace clock'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kenji Shiga, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, looks at a "peace clock" monument on Aug. 21, 2013, at the museum in the city of Hiroshima, which counts the number of days since the last nuclear test. It showed "98" after it was reset the same day as the city learned of a U.S. experiment in May using plutonium to examine the capabilities of nuclear weapons.

Hiroshima A-bomb museum sees record number of foreign visitors

Hiroshima A-bomb museum sees record number of foreign visitors

Kenji Shiga (L), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, announces at a press conference in the western Japan city on April 20, 2016, that the museum saw a record-high 338,891 foreign visitors in fiscal 2015 ended March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

U.S. officials for Manhattan Project park visit A-bomb exhibit

U.S. officials for Manhattan Project park visit A-bomb exhibit

Kenji Shiga (far L), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima, Jonathan Jarvis (far R), director of the U.S. National Park Service, and other U.S. officials exchange views on the exhibitions at the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at the American University Museum in Washington on June 14, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

U.S. officials for Manhattan Project park visit A-bomb exhibit

U.S. officials for Manhattan Project park visit A-bomb exhibit

Kenji Shiga (far R), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima, guides officials of the U.S. National Park Service at the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at the American University Museum in Washington on June 14, 2015. The U.S. federal government agency is leading a project to create the Manhattan Project National Historic Park to commemorate the American nuclear program in the 1940s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hiroshima A-bomb museum sees record number of foreign visitors

Hiroshima A-bomb museum sees record number of foreign visitors

Kenji Shiga, head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, announces at a press conference in the western Japanese city on April 22, 2015, that the museum saw a record-high number of 234,360 foreign visitors in fiscal 2014 that ended in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hiroshima resets "peace clock"

Hiroshima resets "peace clock"

Kenji Shiga, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, looks at a "peace clock" monument on Sept. 3, 2017, at the museum in the city of Hiroshima, which counts the number of days since the last nuclear test. The clock was reset to "0" the same day, after North Korea conducted a nuclear test. North Korea claims it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb that can be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo