Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living ...

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

More A-bomb survivors in Japan are sending written life stories to the government-run memorial halls in Hiroshima and ...

RPS funding for books will drop from $270,120 to $140,320 — $60,000 less than the amount budgeted in 2018, when the district had five fewer elementary school libraries to stock.

The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...

Nagasaki marks 80th A-bomb anniversary as survivors put hopes of nuclear ban in the hands of youth. Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97.

Nagasaki marks 80th A-bomb anniversary as survivors put hopes of nuclear ban in the hands of youth. Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97.

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

Brendan Fay, nuclear disarmament activist with (NYCAN - New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) welcomed Japanese Peace ...

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