An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of ...

TOKYO - Survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their mayors expressed disappointment ...

Built as a backup plutonium core for a possible third atomic bomb against Japan, the object later known as the Demon Core ...

The register lists the names, ages and dates of death for 349,246 individuals confirmed to have died as of Aug. 5 last year.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NAGASAKI, Japan — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family paid their respects Friday to the victims of the atomic ...

Dignitaries from Japan and the United States have attended a ceremony at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii where in the hope for peace ...

For my family, Memorial Day is personal and real — not just for commemorating America soldiers who died in battle but also for civilians who lost their lives in a war.

TOKYO (AP) — Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic visit to the ...

This is the second of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That first-ever use of an atomic weapon killed an estimated 140,000 people in all, most of whom were civilians. Three ...