Chiyoko Iwanaga was 9 years old and living in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, when she saw two airplanes in the sky above her and then was hit by a flash and blast.
NAGASAKI Strict criteria over whether a person qualifies as a hibakusha survivor has meant that many people, through no fault of their own, missed out on health and medical benefits for decades.
TOKYO, April 30: Twenty-three residents of Japan's Hiroshima have filed a lawsuit with the Hiroshima District Court, demanding recognition of their status as victims of radioactive "black rain" following the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing.
A Japanese high court on March 24 rejected local residents' call to halt the operation of an idled nuclear reactor in western Japan, upholding a lower court decision.