A total of 64.74 million tourists including 4.22 million from overseas visited Hiroshima Prefecture in 2024, according to a ...

Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site where at least 140,000 people died from an atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on ...

The Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025’ explores a legacy of memory and modernism across 23 architects and artist groups ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month in the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb. The White House says ...

Secretary of State John Kerry made history Monday when he became the first sitting secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima Memorial, where he laid a wreath. A senior State Department official said ...

There was good reason for the White House to brace itself for criticism after announcing President Obama’s scheduled visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan — but it didn’t come. Obama is set ...

Now 92 years old, Kikyomi Kouno recalled a local train trip with her mother 79 years ago from their home, 22 miles outside of Hiroshima, to search for her two sisters in the city that had been hit ...

President Obama next month will make a historic visit to Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. U.S. officials told the Nikkei Asian Review that the visit will come after the G-7 ...

Watch the first few minutes of this video of President Obama calling for an end to nuclear weapons as he paid tribute to the victims of the Hiroshima bombing. Click at the 20min:30sec mark to hear ...

News came this morning that President Obama will become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima. A White House Announcement says it will come later this month when the president goes to Japan.

On August 6, 1945, on the order of President Harry Truman, a B-29 named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed the city, killed more than 100,000 people, and ...

President Obama plans to travel to Hiroshima during a trip to Japan later this month, and in doing so he will become the first sitting president to visit the site of the 1945 atomic bombing. "The ...