Image Day: Nagasaki Peace Memorial

Halls for the Atomic Bomb Victims are located in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima, cities which suffered bombings.

They were built in order to stress-upon people, of the sacrifices made by those who died after exposure to the bombings.

> Image of Nagasaki Peace Memorial

In Time: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki

American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days. About 30% of Nagasaki, including almost all the industrial district was destroyed by the bomb and nearly 74,000 were killed and a similar number injured.

> Kayoko Iwanaga tells her family's story