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

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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