The mayor of Nagasaki said Monday he is considering how to respond to Taiwan's request to attend this year's ceremony marking ...

A person walks past the One-Pillar Torii Gate at Sannō Shrine, the only gate remaining of four gates after the 1945 atomic ...

Japan surrendered on Aug 15, ending World War II and its nearly half-century of aggression across Asia. In Nagasaki, part of ...

Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday expressed regret over the Nagasaki city government's decision not to ...

TOKYO — 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. Fukahori died ...

TOKYO — Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in ...

These attacks killed tens of thousands of people and turned both cities into ruins. But very few know that Nagasaki was not ...

Unlike Nagasaki, Hiroshima, which normally would not invite Taiwan for its own Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, has decided to ...

It is thought more than 1,400 people died here, including teachers and children. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and Hiroshima three days earlier, together killed more than 210,000 people.

Decorated with colorful paper cranes and blooming flowers, it doesn’t look like the scene of a tragedy. On Aug. 9, 1945, US ...