That girl, Kotoko, is the center of Nishikawa Miwa’s “ Children Untold ,” a drama built from years of archival testimony ...

Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan’s hits record, has died. He ...

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The glassy sphere of hiroshimaite created in the atomic blast that contained a previously unknown metal alloy. L. Bindi et al., Science Advances, 2026 under CC-BY-4.0 On August 6, 1945, the United ...

TOKYO — The only country to have experienced atomic bombings in war has long upheld its “Three Non-Nuclear Principles” as a core policy, under which Japan does not possess, produce or permit the entry ...

TOKYO — Hiroshima on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop ...

A local man who was 7 years old when American troops dropped the first of two nuclear bombs in Japan during World War II is sharing his dramatic story as part of his mission to promote a more peaceful ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time a nuclear weapon was ever used in warfare. Eighty-one years ...

From trees that survived the bombs to Sadako Sasaki's thousands of paper cranes, learn about the powerful symbols of hope and nuclear disarmament that emerged in the wake of Hiroshima. On August 9, ...

Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, S.J./The devastation in Hiroshima after the bomb Credit: iStock/HildaWeges/Wikimedia Commons/Grentidez/Illustration: America Media A Jesuit ...

At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a minister who presided over a Methodist church in Hiroshima, was two miles outside the city, when a tremendous flash occurred in the sky.