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

More A-bomb survivors in Japan are sending written life stories to the government-run memorial halls in Hiroshima and ...

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

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

Ukraine’s ambassador is warning of a growing threat from China and Russia as Australia marks the end of World War II in the ...

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

Nagasaki, Aug. 14 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese woman and an American man whose grandfathers experienced the U.S. atomic bombings ...

On 80th anniversary of the 1st & only use of nuclear weapons, Nobel laureates warn that the world is closer to nuclear war ...

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

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