Guest columnist Jane Yoder-Short asks, Can we see through the eyes of those fearful of being bombed, thanks to our tax ...

Friday was the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the war ...

For pacifists, the answer is clear: since any deliberate killing is wrong, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 was wrong about two hundred thousand times over ...

TOKYO (AP) — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as ...

Mr Hilling, who joined the RAF in April 1944 before being transferred to the Army and serving in India in 1945 before his ...

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

As the number of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors decreases, Japan's Legacy Successor Programme trains volunteers ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.

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 ...

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 ...

Prayer is the most powerful means to bring peace to souls, to give them happiness, because it brings them closer to God’s love. … Only through prayer can o ...