The falling rain is black and viscous and heavy like mud. The ominous precipitation drenches 20-year-old Yasuko while she is in a small boat on her way back to downtown Hiroshima.

In 2015, the “black rain” lawsuit was filed by Hiroshima city residents and others who were exposed to the rain in August 1945. Last summer, the Hiroshima District Court ordered the government ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday for the first time recognized people exposed to radioactive "black rain" that fell after the 1945 U.S. atomic attack on Hiroshima as atomic bomb survivors, ordering the ...

atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The ensuing fires in the cities blew huge amounts of radioactive material and soot into the air, causing so-called "black rain." How extensive ...

Later came the black rain and the agonising deaths from a strange new killer - radiation sickness. But any visitor to the Hiroshima Peace Museum might justifiably ask, where is the context?

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Seven organizations in Hiroshima Prefecture for hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, held a joint press conference at Hiroshima City Hall ...