When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to a small rural ...

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, survivors continue searching for remains and healing—and ...

To this day, they are not yet done with war,” writes Rebun Kayo, a researcher at Hiroshima University, kneeling on a hillside of forested Ninoshima, digging through dirt for the tiniest shred of bone.

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural ...

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural ...

Rebun Kayo, a Hiroshima University researcher, has been regularly visiting the island in search of the remains of people. He ...

Decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, efforts continue on Ninoshima island to recover and honor the remains of those ...

Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago.

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago in Hiroshima, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, ...

Many of the injured were ferried to nearby Ninoshima island, where makeshift field hospitals treated survivors under dire conditions. FILE-Hiroshima after the atomic bomb strike in 1945.

Ninoshima saw 3 weeks of chaos, deaths and rushed burials Within two hours of the blast, victims began arriving by boat from Hiroshima at the island’s No. 2 quarantine center.

Ninoshima, an island where thousands of the dead and dying were brought after the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago, is seen from a ferry on Monday, July 7, 2025, in Horishima, western Japan.