A photograph that has spread on Reddit and Facebook for years allegedly showed a bonsai tree that survived the United States' ...

The trailer for the book "Ghosts of Hiroshima," narrated by Martin Sheen, is here. It will be made into a film by James ...

A former accommodation facility for a U.S. atomic bomb radiation effects survey team quietly sits on Hijiyama, a small hill ...

By Tom Bateman NINOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the ...

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged the U.S.

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

At 1:15 p.m., there will be a solemn bell-ringing which will mark 8:15 a.m., Aug. 6 in Hiroshima, the exact time of the 1945 ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were said at the time to be justified as the only way to end World War II. Seventy-five years later, legal experts say they would now be war crimes.

Bound for destiny and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay carried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic destruction. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morning ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”, becomes a ghost, and every year, experiences the people's suffering ...

The G7 Summit in Hiroshima will be held from May 19-21. The "Group of Seven" (G7) is an informal alliance of leading democratic industrialized nations of members Canada, France, ...

On my way to Hilliard, I carried my copy of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima.” (My 1989 edition bears the cover endorsement “Everyone able to read should read it,” and I agree.) ...