Howard Kakita is an American hibakusha, a Japanese word for survivor. In 1945, he was a young boy staying with grandparents when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on their city of Hiroshima.

Like any child would have done, seven-year-old Howard Kakita wanted to get a good view of the fearsome B-29 bombers flying overhead. So 80 years ago today, in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, he ...

This weekend marks 75 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Harry Smith talks to Howard Kakita, an American who looks back on surviving the ...

Editor's Note: This article contains graphic descriptions of the effects of the atomic bomb. I was angered and dismayed by Jerry Saltz’s August 6 Instagram post on the 80th anniversary of the American ...

It was a hot, bright morning in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and Howard Kakita, a 7-year-old Japanese American, and his elder brother, Kenny, were gleefully returning home after learning that school had ...

On that clear, sunny morning, 7-year-old Howard Kakita stood on the roof of his grandparents’ bathhouse excitedly watching the vapor trails of an approaching B-29. The date was August 6, 1945. The ...