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US President Joe Biden, left, and Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister, at the G7 meeting in Japan

G7 to weigh tighter sanctions on Russia

G7 leaders arrived in Hiroshima in Japan today to weigh tighter sanctions on Russia and protections against China's "economic coercion", surrounded by reminders about the harrowing cost of war.

Business • 18 May 23

Approximately 140,000 people lost their lives in Hiroshima as a result of the blast on 6 August, 1945

Japanese ambassador appeals for end to nuclear weapons

Around 50 people attended the annual commemoration in Merrion Square Park in Dublin this afternoon for the victims of the US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on this day in 1945.

Ireland • 06 Aug 22

Doves fly during a memorial service for atomic bombing victims at the Nagasaki Peace Park

Nagasaki marks atomic bomb anniversary

The Japanese city of Nagasaki has commemorated the 76th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with the mayor calling for the global community to build on a new nuclear ban treaty.

World • 09 Aug 21

The plaintiffs were in areas showered in radioactive 'black rain' following the attack

Japanese court recognises more Hiroshima bomb survivors

A Hiroshima court issued a rare ruling expanding the designation of atomic bomb survivors to include more people hit by radioactive "black rain", 75 years after the US nuclear attack on Japan at the end of World War II.

World • 29 Jul 20

The deadliest rain-related disaster in over three decades
has sparked national grief

Japan battles shortage of necessities following floods

Japan struggled to restore utilities and bring relief to the survivors of its worst floods in 36 years, facing health risks from high temperatures and a lack of water, while rescuers kept up an increasingly grim search for victims.

Asia • 10 Jul 18

Sumiteru Taniguchi spent about three-and-a-half years in hospital after the blast

Postman who survived Nagasaki bombing dies

Prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was delivering mail in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, has died at the age of 88.

World • 30 Aug 17

Children light incense sticks to offer prayers at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Japan marks 72 years since Hiroshima attack

Japan has marked 72 years since the world's first nuclear attack on Hiroshima.

World • 06 Aug 17

Barack Obama - 'We come to ponder the terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past'

Obama lays wreath at Hiroshima memorial

Barack Obama, the first incumbent US president to visit Hiroshima, has laid a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima.

News • 27 May 16

140,000 people died after the US dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima

John Kerry visits Hiroshima atomic-bomb memorial

John Kerry has become the first US secretary of state to pay his respects at Hiroshima's memorial to victims of the 1945 US nuclear attack that killed 140,000 people.

World • 11 Apr 16

John Kerry and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida pose during the first session of the G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting

Kerry not planning apology for Hiroshima bomb

John Kerry will not offer an apology for the United States' use of the atomic bomb against Japan when he becomes the first US secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum tomorrow, a senior US official said.

News • 10 Apr 16