Ekuan became a monk in a Hiroshima temple to succeed his father, who died from radiation following the atomic bombing.
The Japanese scholarship, by historians like Sadao Asada of Doshisha University in Kyoto, notes that Japanese wartime leaders who favored surrender saw their salvation in the atomic bombing.
Directed by George Steel, the 32-member Vox Vocal Ensemble, singing in Japanese, will perform Mr. Hayashi's "Little Landscapes of Hiroshima," chronicling the aftermath of the atomic bombing.
By Russell Shorto August 31, 2016 John Hersey was thirty-two when The New Yorker published "Hiroshima," his massively influential article on the atomic bombing.
Ritsuko Komaki, 67, grew up in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing there.
Few Japanese soldiers were stationed here, and only about 250 of them would perish in the atomic bombing.
One of its aircraft dropped a wreath over Hiroshima on 6 August 1952, the seventh anniversary of the atomic bombing.
Of a population of 360,000 -- largely non-combatant women, children and elderly -- most became victims of the indiscriminate massacre of the atomic bombing.
Signed Comment about the anniversary of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima during World War II.
The company's factory survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima because it lay shielded behind a hill.
Thursday is the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
