By Rikako Maruyama HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Since the age of seven, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free ...

The Japanese government plans to invite Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Nations Do Hung Viet, who will chair next year's ...

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On the 80th anniversary (Aug. 6, 1945) of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, we need to revive nuclear arms control and disarmament. We need some hope that ...

Garret Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s “The Hiroshima Men.” ...

Opinion: 80 years later, there is no certainty another approach would have abruptly ended hostilities and spared substantial ...

A dawn ceremony is planned for Aug. 6, as Oak Ridge remembers the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945.

Sunday, Aug. 6, 1945, 8:15 am. A 12-year-old girl was walking to her seijinshiki ceremony, a traditional Japanese rite of ...

The Pearl Harbour attack united American citizens like never before. Young men volunteered to fight, factories increased production, and the entire nation mobilised for war. Some may recall the ...

While not having heard until recently of the ‘Hiroshima Committee’, I have no doubt the members of this activist group are ...

Zico, 72, who also served as head coach of Japan's men's national soccer team, laid flowers at the cenotaph for the atomic ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan, in the city of Hiroshima. The 9,700-pound bomb, according to the Nuclear Museum, was dropped by The Enola Gay, a B-29 ...