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 ...

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

Nagasaki, Aug. 14 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese woman and an American man whose grandfathers experienced the U.S. atomic bombings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...