This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow.

With China as its new rival, America is reviving old wartime facilities across the Pacific. Tinian once allowed its bombers ...

About 100 people have gathered for a wreath-laying service to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day).

In our annual ritual of remembrance, Hiroshima is recalled not so much as a site of mass slaughter, but as a symbol of peace, ...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States unleashed a nuclear inferno over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. By the end of 1945, the attacks had killed 210,000 people, with 330,000 more dying ...

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

As the number of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors decreases, Japan's Legacy Successor Programme trains volunteers ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...

As they do each August, several Quaker protesters gathered at the intersection of State and Main streets in the center of ...

So when I published an essay during the summer of Barbenheimer that braided my nuclear obsession with my past grief, ...

The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...