The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a warning written in fire ...

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

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

VJ Day stands for Victory over Japan Day. It's the name given to the day in August 1945 when Japan surrendered, bringing the Second World War to a complete end. Earlier that year, on 8 May, Germany ...

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

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, ...

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

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

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

Seeking to balance its alliance with the United States and its ties with Arab countries − which are major suppliers of oil ...

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