On the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jordan Dunbar hears from the only people to have ever ...

Every time a nuclear test was conducted abroad, Ichiro Moritaki (1901-1994) staged a sit-in in front of the Cenotaph for the ...

While VE Day might be more famous in the UK and Europe, VJ Day marks the actual end of WWII. Learn more about this historic ...

Last year, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, also known as Nihon Hidankyo, won the Nobel ...

Mark your calendar for daily, weekly and monthly August holidays. Celebrate favorite foods, fun summer activities, historic ...

VJ Day, also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, or VP Day, falls this year on Friday, August 15. The allied victory will be ...

Once a devastated wasteland, Hiroshima has become an example of perseverance in rebuilding itself. Visitors have been coming ever since to learn and understand how these things can not happen ...

The liberation of Hong Kong is an often overlooked World War II event caused by Japan's surrender. Read on to find out more.

Mr Kayo’s drive for repeating the gruelling task year after year is partly personal. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Some Hiroshima children got a lesson in how water service was restored the day an atomic bomb hit 80 years ago.

Koko Kondo, an 80-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, was invited to give a peace studies lecture for students at Komyo Elementary S ...