NHK World's Yoshikawa Ryuichi reports from Hiroshima City. I am at the Children's Peace Monument, which features a statue of a girl holding a paper crane. It was built to commemorate Sasaki Sadako ...

She became the model for the Children’s Peace Monument that stands in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. During her time in the hospital, Sadako folded more than 1,000 paper cranes from her bed ...

Here stands a monument with a stone that outlasted the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Norwegian words "Fred" (peace), "Aldri Mer Hiroshima" ("Never again Hiroshima") and "Aldri Mer ...

The city of Hiroshima is best known among overseas visitors as the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. The city’s association with nuclear weapons has been underscored by the recent Nobel Peace ...

In June, Hiroshima University asked the city to include ... Kusumoto and his group are hoping to one day see a monument commemorating the students, much like the one that exists for the Korean ...

A memorial monument to console the souls of ethnic Korean victims of the bombing was erected in 1970, but the Japanese government initially refused to have it properly placed inside the Hiroshima ...

In the monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, a list of dead victims is enshrined. It had the names of 344,306 people as of Aug. 6, the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western ...

The Imperial Household Agency is considering a visit by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the island of Iwo Jima in ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered atomic bombings ... On the island, they visited the Tenzan Ireihi monument erected by the Japanese government and a memorial facility for both the Japanese and ...