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

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

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

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors ...

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who ...

Thousands of people have gathered in Hiroshima to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the world’s first wartime use of a ...

Hiroshima was bombed by the American military on Aug. 6, 1945, causing the deaths of about 140,000 residents by the end of ...

Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on leaders to heed the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and warned of the consequences of the ...

As the nonproliferation movement enters a tenuous new era, Japan’s firsthand experience with nuclear warfare is crucial in ...

It has been 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the world’s first nuclear attack. Hannah ...