On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Aug. 6 marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed two-thirds of the Japanese port city, instantly killing about 140,000 people. The focus at memorials ...

HIROSHIMA--For the first time in its long history, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum will provide an option for visitors to ...

Now 92 years old, Kikyomi Kouno recalled a local train trip with her mother 79 years ago from their home, 22 miles outside of Hiroshima, to search for her two sisters in the city that had been hit ...

HIROSHIMA -- Online applications for an all-day advance reservation system introduced on a trial basis this fiscal year at ...

This oral history is adapted from Garrett M. Graff’s book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” which published on Tuesday. Eighty years ...

Hiroshima deserves to be so much more than a reminder. Best known to history for being largely razed to the ground by the indiscriminate power of the first atomic bomb 80 years ago, you’re probably ...

An innovative NHK project about the August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima has come under scrutiny for using racist epithets to describe Koreans, political interference, and for potentially fabricating ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (HawaiiNewsNow) - As we mark 80 years since the end of World War II, Hawaii News Now is taking a closer look at Hawaii’s unique bond with Japan through its sister city relationships.

Donald G. McNeil Jr., a former global health reporter for the New York Times, is the author of “The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons From 25 Years of Covering Pandemics.” I had dinner the other night in a ...