Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.

An exhibition on the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago opened at the Battleship ...

HIROSHIMA: Crown Princess Kiko and her second daughter Princess Kako placed flowers at the Cenotaph for the Victims of the ...

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 ...

Seeds from a tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester ahead of the 80th anniversary ...

With fewer atomic bomb survivors still alive to share their stories, donated materials are becoming more and more vital for ...

Northern NSW resident Cherry Watts was washing her newborn sister's nappies when her city was destroyed by an atomic bomb at ...

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 ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

THIS month marks two anniversaries that, if we lived in a world with historical memory, would be front-page news.August 6 and ...

Brendan Fay, nuclear disarmament activist with (NYCAN - New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) welcomed Japanese Peace ...