A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic ...

Forensics investigators identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families, and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93.

NAGASAKI--For decades, atomic bombing survivor Nobuko Oka did not want to share her story--even with her close relatives. She faced discrimination and became resigned to the notion that nobody ...

A million others became homeless. The death toll exceeds those killed in the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki. But the Tokyo firebombing has been largely eclipsed by the two atomic bombings.

Just before 11am on August 9, 1945, Yoshiro Yamawaki, 11, and his twin brother said farewell to their father, an engineer, as he went off to work. They were sitting on the veranda of their house ...

St. Paul and Nagasaki, Japan. This was the first relationship of its kind between U.S. and Japanese (or any Asian) cities.

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.