How 1,000 Paper Cranes Remind You to Seek Peace

Sadako Sasaki was born in January 1943 in Hiroshima, Japan. But 1943 was not a good time to be born in Japan, and Hiroshima was not a good place to be born. Sixty-nine years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Although...

The Horror of Hiroshima Told Through Graphic Novel

Today is the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Six-year-old Keiji Nakazawa was on his way to school in Hiroshima when the bomb exploded at 8:15 on that hot August morning in 1945. Even though his father, older sister and younger brother all were...