The statue stood in Peace Park since 1990, often decorated by colorful origami cranes. But last July, thieves cut the statue down and stole it. Her feet were all that was left.

Take a flight of discovery high above the solemn and serene Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan with this breathtaking ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of the tragedy later this year.

In their first trip to the city since the emperor's accession in 2019, the imperial couple laid white flowers and bowed deeply at a cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which holds the names ...

While you can take a self-guided tour of Peace Park, I recommend taking one of the Hiroshima walking tours. I found it more ...

HIROSHIMA -- The arch-shaped cenotaph for atomic bomb victims, where the city of Hiroshima holds its annual Aug. 6 peace ceremony, may be one of the m ...

TOKYO—A Nobel Prize-winning anti-nuclear group launched an online memorial Tuesday for the 38,000 children who died in the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu will be shown at the Hiroshima Orizuru Tower in the city's Naka Ward from July 1 through Sept. 1, and a peace memorial service will be held on Aug. 6.

The public can once again see the statue of John A. Macdonald outside Queens Park. The statue had been surrounded by wooden hoarding for the past five years. It was first covered up in 2020 after ...

TORII STATION, Japan -- U.S. Army volunteers joined Japanese Self-Defense Forces and U.S. Navy volunteers at the Okinawa Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan, on June 7, 2025.

John A. Macdonald statue at Queen's Park has the wooden box removed. Brian Lilley/Toronto Sun After five years of being boxed up, Sir John A. is free again.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have begun a two-day visit to the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima to pay their respects to the war dead, as 2025 marks 80 years since the end of World War Two.