Two words recorded in a flight log after the Hiroshima bombing revealed how high the smoke had risen into the atmosphere.

HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Municipal Government on Nov. 4 returned the remains of a victim of the atomic bombing to a ...

On August 6, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to leave Hiroshima and return to his family in Nagasaki when a blinding ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, spent his later years advocating ...

HIROSHIMA—The mayor of Hiroshima called for world peace on the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing, expressing concerns about Russia’s prolonged war in Ukraine and Israel’s ongoing attack on the ...

As the fires lit by the explosion of the Little Boy atomic bomb spread and merged across Hiroshima, the blazing temperatures ...

HIROSHIMA--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stopped short of ruling out future revisions to Japan’s non-nuclear weapons policy during her visit here for the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, choosing to ...

In August 1945, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- the only recorded use of nuclear weapons during a period of war -- killing an estimated 146,000 people in Hiroshima, and ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weapons during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people ...

TOKYO -- Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan's hits record, has died. He was 86. The Golden Players Club, an organization for elite baseball ...