N AGASAKI -- The remains of the foundations of a prisoner-of-war camp that had stood about 1.7 kilometers south of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bombing were unearthed at a construction ...

A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation ...

Left: Minoru Moriuchi (80*) NAGASAKI • 3 MILES FROM HYPOCENTER AT TIME OF BOMBING “On the morning of August 9, 1945, I was perched atop a giant persimmon tree in our backyard, catching cicadas ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing 74,000 people and injuring 75,000. Hiroyasu Tagawa, now 85, recounts his horrific experiences as a boy that day in ...

NAGASAKI -- The Nagasaki District Court on Sept. 9 recognized 15, including two deceased, ... 1945, even though they were inside the 7-12 km east-west range from the hypocenter. ...

In Peace Park, Nagasaki’s open-air memorial to the atomic bomb’s hypocenter, stands a lonely external pillar, topped by saintly figures, which was part of Urakami Cathedral.

Three days after Hiroshima, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. ... Dō-oh was about three-fourths of a mile from the hypocenter, inside a Mitsubishi torpedo factory.

Pope Francis began his first full day in Japan Nov. 24 with a somber visit in the pouring rain to Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, a memorial to the tens of thousands who died when the ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. forces detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki. Shiroyama Elementary School was only 500 meters (1,600 feet) west of ground zero. It is thought more than 1,400 people died ...

NAGASAKI -- "Before long, oil-like rain came pouring down and made black specks on my white shirt," a man from Nagasaki Prefecture's former village of Himi stated in response to a survey conducted ...

NAGASAKI—About a thousand people attended a memorial Mass at the Urakami Cathedral here on April 27 for Pope Francis, who had visited Nagasaki and called for a world without nuclear weapons.