On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami that overwhelmed the Fukushima ...
Citizens that include atomic bomb survivors are traveling to New York to advocate for a world without nuclear weapons at a meeting of signatories of a nuclear ban treaty. The Japanese government, ...
HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...
August has been a solemn month in Japan for more than 80 years. Although Japan formally signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August ...
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...