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Mori, A-bomb survivor who met Obama in Hiroshima, dies at 88

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, as Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the atomic-bombed city. Mori died on March 14, 2026, at a hospital in Hiroshima aged 88.

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Mori, A-bomb survivor who met Obama in Hiroshima, dies at 88

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, as Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the atomic-bombed city. Mori died on March 14, 2026, at a hospital in Hiroshima aged 88.

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A-bomb exhibition begins in Osaka

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (2nd from R) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (far R) attend a tape-cutting ceremony on the first day of an exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Osaka International Peace Center in the western Japan city on Aug. 22, 2025. Twenty-six items provided by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb museums are on display at the event, which is being held until Dec. 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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A-bomb exhibition begins in Osaka

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (front, R) visits an exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on its first day at the Osaka International Peace Center in the western Japan city on Aug. 22, 2025. Twenty-six items provided by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb museums are on display at the event, which is being held until Dec. 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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A-bomb exhibition at Battleship Missouri Memorial

Sadae Kasaoka, 92, an atomic bomb survivor, talks about her experience in Hiroshima during an interview to the media on the first day of a special exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Aug. 12, 2025. The exhibition, displaying items from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb museums, will run until Feb. 28, 2026.

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A-bomb exhibition at Battleship Missouri Memorial

A visitor looks at items related to the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the first day of a special exhibition at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Aug. 12, 2025. The exhibition, displaying items from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb museums, will run until Feb. 28, 2026.

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A-bomb exhibition at Battleship Missouri Memorial

Sadae Kasaoka, 92, an atomic bomb survivor, talks about her experience in Hiroshima on the first day of a special exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Aug. 12, 2025. The exhibition, displaying items from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb museums, will run until Feb. 28, 2026.

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Documents on A-bomb victims in Hiroshima

Eighty-two volumes of documents concerning 23,039 victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, including autopsy reports and lists of people treated at first-aid stations, are placed for the public to examine at the International Conference Center Hiroshima in the western Japan city on Aug. 1, 2025.

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Documents on A-bomb victims in Hiroshima

Eighty-two volumes of documents concerning 23,039 victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, including autopsy reports and lists of people treated at first-aid stations, are placed for the public to examine at the International Conference Center Hiroshima in the western Japan city on Aug. 1, 2025.

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Airing of Hiroshima A-bomb victims list

Photo taken on May 22, 2025, shows the interior of a stone chamber at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima which stores books listing the names of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The city government opened the chamber to the media for the first time, on the occasion of the annual airing out of the books ahead of the rainy season.

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Airing of Hiroshima A-bomb victims list

Photo taken on May 22, 2025, shows the interior of a stone chamber at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima which stores books listing the names of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The city government opened the chamber to the media for the first time, on the occasion of the annual airing out of the books ahead of the rainy season.

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Airing of Hiroshima A-bomb victims list

Photo taken on May 22, 2025, shows the interior of a stone chamber at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima which stores books listing the names of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The city government opened the chamber to the media for the first time, on the occasion of the annual airing out of the books ahead of the rainy season.

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Airing of Hiroshima A-bomb victims list

Photo taken on May 22, 2025, shows the interior of a stone chamber at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima which stores books listing the names of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The city government opened the chamber to the media for the first time, on the occasion of the annual airing out of the books ahead of the rainy season.

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1955, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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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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Candlelight memorial event in Hiroshima

People march with candles at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on the night of July 31, 2023, at an event to mourn atomic bomb victims ahead of the 78th anniversary on Aug. 6 of the world's first atomic bombing by the United States on the western Japan city during World War II.

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Candlelight memorial event in Hiroshima

People march with candles at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on the night of July 31, 2023, at an event to mourn atomic bomb victims ahead of the 78th anniversary on Aug. 6 of the world's first atomic bombing by the United States on the western Japan city during World War II.

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Spouses of G-7 leaders in Hiroshima

Spouses of Group of Seven leaders, (from L) Akshata Murty of Britain, Jill Biden of the United States, Yuko Kishida of Japan, Britta Ernst of Germany and the European Commission president's husband Heiko Echter von der Leyen, walk in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima after offering flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city on May 19, 2023, the first day of the three-day summit in the city. (Pool photo)

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Atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima

Keiko Ogura, an 85-year-old survivor of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, meets the press in Hiroshima after holding brief talks with the Group of Seven leaders during their visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on May 19, 2023, on the first day of the three-day summit in the western Japan city.

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G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Keiko Ogura, an 85-year-old survivor of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, meets the press in Hiroshima after holding brief talks with the Group of Seven leaders during their visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on May 19, 2023, on the first day of the three-day summit in the western Japan city.

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Atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima

Keiko Ogura, an 85-year-old survivor of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, meets the press in Hiroshima after holding brief talks with the Group of Seven leaders during their visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on May 19, 2023, on the first day of the three-day summit in the western Japan city.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (4th from R) poses for photos with three victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, including Hideo Tsuchiyama (3rd from R), 88, a former president of Nagasaki University, at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. Ambassador Roos at Nagasaki ceremony

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos arrives at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2012, to attend a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city. Roos became the first U.S. ambassador to visit Nagasaki for the ceremony.

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Truman's grandson in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (far R), a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman who ordered the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, listens to the tragic experience of a survivor (front) of the bombing of Nagasaki at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Aug. 7, 2012. Daniel is visiting Japan for the first time to take part in the annual peace ceremonies in the two cities.

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Ex-U.S. President Truman's grandson meets A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (L), a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, meets a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, during a meeting at the University of Tokyo Komaba campus in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Aug. 3, 2012. Daniel, the 55-year-old grandson of the president who ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, is visiting Japan for the first time to take part in the annual peace ceremonies to be held in the two cities on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, respectively.

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Ex-U.S. President Truman's grandson meets A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (R), a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, listens to the tragic experience of a survivor (L) of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, during a meeting at the University of Tokyo Komaba campus in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Aug. 3, 2012. Daniel, the 55-year-old grandson of the president who ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, is visiting Japan for the first time to take part in the annual peace ceremonies to be held in the two cities on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, respectively.

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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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U.S. official to attend Nagasaki ceremony for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Charge d'Affaires James Zumwalt at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. On Aug. 7, 2011, the embassy said the United States will send Zumwalt as the country's first representative to Nagasaki's annual peace memorial ceremony marking the U.S. atomic bombing in 1945.

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Piano that survived atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese pianist Mami Hagiwara is pictured with a piano that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Mazda Stadium in the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 2011, the 66th anniversary of the attack. To mark the anniversary, a concert was held before a night game between the Hiroshima Carp and the Yomiuri Giants at the stadium, with Hagiwara, a 24-year-old Hiroshima native who won first prize in the piano division of the Geneva International Music Competition in 2010, playing the piano.

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Nagasaki 65th A-bomb anniversary

NAGASAKI, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano, the first Asian head of the Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, offers a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at the southwestern Japan city's Peace Park on Aug. 9, 2010.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon speaks during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon completes a speech at a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Behind Ban is a cenotaph inscribing a pledge never to repeat the atomic tragedy. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon offers a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.S. envoy in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos leaves Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park after attending a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010. Roos became the first U.S. representative to take part in the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon bows as he offers a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon offers a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon offers a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan before a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to attend the event.

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U.S. envoy in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos offers a moment of silent prayer during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Roos became the first U.S. representative to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (2nd from L) waves as he arrives at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to take part in the event.

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U.S. envoy in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos attends a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Roos became the first U.S. representative to attend the event.

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U.N. chief in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) arrives at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban became the first U.N. head to take part in the event.

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U.S. envoy in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (R) shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) as they attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Roos became the first U.S. representative to take part in the event.

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Hiroshima court orders compensation to A-bomb survivors

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A man supporting plaintiffs over radiation-related illnesses holds up a banner showing victory in their suit in front of the Hiroshima District Court on March 18. The court ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to three people suffering from radiation-related illnesses caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima in what lawyers say is the first such ruling among similar group suits.

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Japan holds 1st gov't-sponsored A-bomb exhibition in U.S.

CHICAGO, United States - Japan on May 6 opened its first government-sponsored exhibition in Chicago of materials related to the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photo shows Katsuji Yoshida, a 73-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki atomic attack, looking at a photo of himself after the atomic bombing.

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Namie Asazuma, translator of 'Hadashi no Gen'(Barefoot Gen)

TOKYO, Japan - Namie Asazuma heads a group of mainly housewives in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, which has translated into English ''Hadashi no Gen'' (Barefoot Gen), a well-known Japanese comic book series about a boy who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. San Francisco-based Last Gasp will publish the first two of the saga's 10 volumes by Aug. 6, 2004, the 59th anniversary of the bombing.

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Hall for Hiroshima A-bomb victims shows 1st photo of U.S. POW

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A photo of Cpl. John Long Jr., an American prisoner of war who died in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was registered at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall of Atomic Bomb Victims on Jan. 4 by his 34-year-old relative Nathan Long who lives in Tokyo. The photo is the first to be displayed of American POWs who were taken to Hiroshima and died there after the United Stated dropped the bomb on the city.

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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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Yokozuna Asashoryu gets peace award in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Asashoryu (R), the first Mongolian to attain sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, receives a peace award from Katsuichi Fukahori, head of an atomic bombing victims' group, in Nagasaki on Feb. 17 in recognition of his contributions to promoting peace exchanges between Japan and Mongolia through sumo.

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Gov't set to decide not to appeal A-bomb survivor case

TOKYO, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hoon, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 17 about the Japanese government's decision not to appeal a Dec. 5 high court ruling ordering it to pay medical allowances to Kwak, who now lives in South Korea. It was the first ruling by a high court recognizing that someone holding an A-bomb survivor's health card who lives abroad is eligible to receive the allowances on the same terms as those living in Japan.