Hiroshima
6 and 9 August 1945 and everything after. The two cities, the casualty estimates and their ranges, the hibakusha who spent their lives testifying, and the memorials built where the buildings were.
Part of Japan
25 moments in this segment.
- - Nagasaki temple destroyed. Nagasaki 1945 destroyed city ruins. Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176
- - Nagasaki temple destroyed poster. Nagasaki 1945 destroyed city ruins. Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176
- - AP file film of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Associated Press archive film of the Hiroshima bombing of August 1945, catalogued in the AP syndication library.
- - President Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima. Recording held by the Harry S. Truman Library of Truman announcing from the USS Augusta that the United States had dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
- - A-Bomb Dome. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. Citizens of Hiroshima walk past the A-Bomb Dome, the nearest building to have survived the city's atomic bombing in 1945, on their way to a memorial ceremony on August 6, 2004.
- - HiroshimaCenotaphMuseum6981. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park museum.
- - HiroshimaCenotaphMuseum6989. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park museum.
- - HiroshimaStatueFountainMuseum7042. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park museum. This photograph shows three landmarks in Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan: Statue of Mother and Child in Storm (foreground) Fountain of Prayer (middle) Peace Museum (background)
- - Nunakumajinja05s1980. torii gate Shinto shrine Japan photograph. Nunakuma-jinja, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan
- - HiroshimaPeaceMemorialPanorama-2. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. Panorama from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Aioi Bridge on the left, Hiroshima Peace Memorial on the center, Motoyasu Bridge on the right
- - Genbaku Dome04-r. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. Genbaku Dome ( 原爆ドーム ), Hiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
- - Sachiko Matsuo on the day Nagasaki was destroyed. CTBTO testimony from Sachiko Matsuo, a fifth-grade schoolgirl sheltering in a hut in the hills when the bomb destroyed her home in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.
- - Yasuaki Yamashita, five years old in Nagasaki. United Nations testimony from Yasuaki Yamashita, who was five when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.
- - Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, South view 20190417 1. Hiroshima Genbaku Dome atomic. A south view of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
- - The Hiroshima bombing was illustrated with the wrong footage for decades. DW investigation finding that news organisations worldwide had for years shown film of a different explosion when depicting the Enola Gay's 1945 drop on Hiroshima.
- - Hibakusha testimony: Takashi Shimohara, Hiroshima Second Middle School. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum testimony describing the moment of the blast inside his school building and the scene at Miyuki Bridge afterwards.
- - The history of Comme des Garcons. Chronological history of Rei Kawakubo's label from its Tokyo founding through the 1981 Paris debut that critics dubbed 'Hiroshima chic', to its later collaborations.
- - Hibakusha testimony: Tsuneaki Suzuki, aged 13 in Hiroshima. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum survivor testimony. Suzuki was 13 and about 2.7km from the hypocentre on 6 August 1945; his uncle's family in the city centre was killed entirely.
- - The history of Issey Miyake. Career history of Issey Miyake, from surviving the Hiroshima bombing as a child through his training in Paris to Pleats Please and A-POC.
- - The tapes from the death zone: 78 survivors within 500m of the hypocentre. Hiroshima Home TV report on testimony tapes recorded in the 1960s-80s and held at Hiroshima University's Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, from people who survived within 500m of the hypocentre.
- - Inside Nagasaki City's Only Sake Brewery. NCC Nagasaki visits the city's last remaining brewery in the run-up to the UNESCO inscription of traditional Japanese sake brewing.
- - Fattening 800 Wagyu in Saikai, Nagasaki. NCC Nagasaki report on a farmer raising roughly 800 kuroge wagyu while bringing up three daughters, who made a picture book about what it means to raise animals for meat.
- - A Campaign to List Ekiben as Intangible Cultural Property. Hiroshima TV report on the push to register the station bento as an intangible cultural property, laying out what makes the form distinctive.
- - What happened at Hiroshima: BBC World Service, 80 years on. BBC World Service documentary for the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, built on testimony from hibakusha, the only people ever to have survived a nuclear attack.
- - Nagasaki: a mother who lost six of her family to the bomb. NBC Nagasaki broadcast archive of a 1990 interview with Chiyoko Egashira, a teacher at Shiroyama school some 500m from the hypocentre, who lost her husband, four children and mother-in-law.