That is when he decided he would tell the world about the suffering that the hibakusha, or survivors of the bombing, endured. He expressed his relentless determination to the world in 2015 at the ...

Inspiring other hibakusha Fukuda Hakaru, a 90-year-old Nagasaki hibakusha, says hearing Oka speak inspired him to share his own story. He wrote her a letter, saying how much her courage had moved him.

It’s estimated there are 136,700 survivors left in Japan. Known as hibakusha, many were infants or unborn when the United States dropped the bombs in 1945. They heard stories of the time from ...

“It’s really … hard to take in.” 80th ANNIVERSARY LOOMING Hibakusha, their supporters and others were overjoyed at finally gaining recognition of their efforts to achieve a nuclear-free ...

NAGASAKI -- An atomic bomb survivor, or hibakusha, who was an elementary school teacher and one of his former students who penned a powerful anti-A-bomb essay portraying his father's suffering ...

Tokyo, Nov. 27 (Jiji Press)--Yu Sato, a 23-year-old Tokyo student hosting online events for listening to the experiences of "hibakusha" atomic bomb survivors, thinks a momentum toward achieving a ...

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the hibakusha is an appeal to the world that is talking again about the use of these terrible devices,” says Fr Alberto Berra, The PIME missionary, from Italy ...