Atomic bombing as seen from photographs
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. military exploded at an altitude of 600 meters above Hiroshima, destroying the city below. Befitting its description as an ‘indiscriminate weapon of destruction,’ the atomic bomb killed innumerable civilians. In this way, a single nuclear weapon led to the unimaginable. Numerous photographs, however, serve as silent “witnesses” to what happened in the city after the atomic bombing. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survey teams, military personnel, and members of the public captured the reality of the tragedy with their cameras. In April 2021, five photographic negatives taken by former Chugoku Shimbun photojournalist Yoshito Matsushige (1913∼2005) were designated as important tangible cultural properties by the Hiroshima City government. They are the only photographic record of the circumstances Hiroshima’s people faced beneath the mushroom cloud on the day of the atomic bombing, and the first photographic negatives of the A-bomb devastation to be designated as Hiroshima’s cultural property.
- Jul. 29, 2021
- Yoshito Matsushige’s five photo negatives
- Mar. 29, 2021
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 3: Living materials
- Mar. 29, 2021
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 2: On verge of deteriorating
- Mar. 29, 2021
- Yoshito Matsushige’s photographic negatives, five “witnesses” of A-bombing, Part 1: Only remaining photos taken that day
- Mar. 27, 2021
- Photographic negatives taken by Yoshito Matsushige designated as Hiroshima’s important cultural properties
- Dec. 17, 2019
- Special exhibition of Wakaji Matsumoto’s photos to be held at The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 2021
- Feb. 4, 2017
- Images from 2,100 A-bomb photos obtained by Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Oct. 18, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Monument of the A-bombed Teachers and Students of National Elementary Schools
- Sep. 29, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: A-bomb Monument of Hiroshima Municipal Girls’ High School
- Sep. 20, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: The Statue of Mother and Child in the Storm
- Jan. 1, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Rest House
- Jan. 1, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Children’s Peace Monument
- Jan. 1, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound
- Jan. 1, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: The Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims
- Jan. 1, 2015
- Landmarks of Hiroshima: Atomic Bomb Dome
- Oct. 15, 2014
- Hiroshima: 70 Years After the A-bombing: Donated Records
- Aug. 5, 2014
- Hiroshima: 70 Years After the A-bombing: Photographic record of the A-bombing
- Mar. 27, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Photographs taken for A-bomb surveys
- Mar. 25, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Pursuing the lost “Ten Views of the Atomic Bombing”
- Mar. 25, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Photos of A-bomb Dome taken by Yuichiro Sasaki
- Mar. 18, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Reconstruction after atomic bombing
- Mar. 17, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Photographs clearly show boundary of area where buildings were completely destroyed and burned
- Mar. 14, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Forgotten Domei news photos
- Mar. 13, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Nuclear Age Recorded
- Mar. 13, 2014
- Record of Hiroshima: Images of the Atomic Bombing
- May 27, 2011
- Photographs convey the misery of the bombing
- May 27, 2011
- Record of Hiroshima: In the footsteps of the Navy A-bomb survey team
- May 27, 2011
- The A-bomb Photographs of Shunkichi Kikuchi, Part Ⅲ: Tremendous Pain
- May 27, 2011
- The A-bomb Photographs of Shunkichi Kikuchi, Part Ⅱ: Images from Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital
- May 27, 2011
- The A-bomb Photographs of Shunkichi Kikuchi, Part Ⅰ: 783 Negatives Return to Hiroshima
- Apr. 15, 2011
- The Devastation of Hiroshima: A Record in Photographs – The City
- Apr. 15, 2011
- The Devastation of Hiroshima: A Record in Photographs – Human Beings
- Feb. 21, 2009
- Photos vividly depict Hiroshima before the atomic bombing
- Jan. 3, 2008
- “Peace Seeds”virtual museum