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

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

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 ...

On Ninoshima, an island near Hiroshima, efforts are intensifying to recover the remains of atomic bomb victims, a gesture of respect for the dead and to ease the grief of the survivors.

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 a small rural ...

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.