The population dropped to 137,000 but by 1955 it was back to the pre-war levels of 344,000 and kept growing from there. The rebuilding of Hiroshima was a more complex affair, because of U.S. and ...

The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens ... The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it? The bomb was dropped to force a quick Japanese surrender.

"I put my hands together in prayer, hoping that war will never happen again. I hope today is an opportunity for children to think about world peace." A female high school student from Hiroshima ...

“As the memory of the war fades today, it is important that the tragic experiences and history are passed on to the generations who do not know the war,” he told a news conference in pre-recorded ...

HIROSHIMA--Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui cited ... The passage highlights the pre-war patriarchal system, he said. “It was completely repudiated under the postwar Japanese Constitution ...