Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich is marking 50 years in the Catholic Church, including more than a decade as the leader of the Chicago ...

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's rise to power in Germany is the subject of countless books, articles, and documentaries, ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales interrupted their summer break to commemorate those who served in the Asia-Pacific 80 years ...

August 15 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II ...

With China as its new rival, America is reviving old wartime facilities across the Pacific. Tinian once allowed its bombers ...

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

As the number of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors decreases, Japan's Legacy Successor Programme trains volunteers ...

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

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

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