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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

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 ...