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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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.

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

The 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was last week. We were taught this atrocity was necessary to end the war and we believed it.