VJ Day stands for Victory over Japan Day. It's the name given to the day in August 1945 when Japan surrendered, bringing the Second World War to a complete end. Earlier that year, on 8 May, Germany ...

On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the ...

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 ...

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

On 80th anniversary of the 1st & only use of nuclear weapons, Nobel laureates warn that the world is closer to nuclear war ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

So when I published an essay during the summer of Barbenheimer that braided my nuclear obsession with my past grief, questioning why my first husband, J, had died of leukemia at the age of thirty-five ...

An exhibition on the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago opened at the Battleship ...