Deep in Kazakhstan lies the Semipalatinsk Test Site, one of the most heavily nuked places on Earth. For decades, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear and hydrogen bombs there while surrounding ...

A 14-year-old junior high school student in this western Japan city has turned the atomic bombing experience of her ...

Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctica in Japan.

The Taiwanese government expressed its intention to participate in ceremonies in both cities last year and did so for the ...

Four Japanese films that competed at Cannes – from 1961 to 1997 – return to the Croisette for a screening day on May 16.

HIROSHIMA--As wars and turbulent politics swirl across the globe, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here offers a place of ...

An atomic bomb-damaged former hospital outpatient building here, which served as a relief base immediately after the attack ...

Participants started full-fledged talks at a Japan-hosted international conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Tuesday, discussing ways to regulate the growing number of tourists visiting ...

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which suffered U.S. atomic bombings in the closing days of World War II, will take differing approaches toward Taiwan again this year over their annual p ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s story sounds almost impossible, but it’s a documented account of a man who survived both atomic bombings ...