HIROSHIMA--Authorities here tightened security this year at annual memorial services for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, sparking criticism from activists and others who call the ...

The government will designate the iconic Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima as a special historic site to ensure its preservation to mark the 80th anniversary in August of the city’s atomic bombing. The ...

Hiroko Kajiyama is seen in this photo provided by the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, located in Hiroshima's Naka Ward. HIROSHIMA -- Words in a diary left by a ...

HIROSHIMA -- Some 750 people gathered in front of Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome on April 10 to call for peace in Ukraine, expressing their anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons stance against Russia, ...

The G7 summit will take place from May 19 to 21 in Hiroshima — the first city in the world to have suffered the catastrophic consequences of a nuclear bomb during war. Forty-three seconds after the ...

Hiroshima – It has been nearly 78 years since Hiroshima was reduced to ashes by an atomic bomb. As each year passes, memories fade, with fewer survivors able to pass on their stories to the next ...

This exhibit allows visitors a virtual-reality tour inside the Atomic Bomb Dome, which is normally inaccessible. Wearing a head-mounted display and pressing a button on their hand, visitors can freely ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Some survivors spoke about their experiences in English at the Peace Memorial Museum. Among them was 86-year-old Ogura Keiko, who had met G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the ...

The A-Bomb Dome, on the north side of Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, is one of the few structures left standing near the hypocenter of the August 6, 1945, atomic bomb blast that leveled the city.

The reason why the USAF kept nuclear armed B-52s on continual rotation just outside of Soviet airspace...for nearly a decade.

A piano tuner in Hiroshima has been travelling across Japan and beyond for decades, sharing the stories of his pianos that survived one of the most destructive events in human history. Nearly eight ...