The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...

If you want to pack the best of Japan (think Tokyo, Mount Fuji, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Osaka & Alpine Route), you should book ...

If Japan had not marched toward war, ordinary people would not have suffered immense hardship. Yet, adequate compensation has ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...

It's been 80 years of talking peace while preparing for nuclear war.

Japan faces with growing urgency the question of how to carry forward the moral voice for ridding the world of nuclear ...

People in Staffordshire are warmly invited to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, marking Japan’s surrender in the Second World War.

VE Day often overshadows VJ Day, descendants of Second World War veterans have said during a screening of their wartime ...

Koko Kondo’s anger was extinguished when she saw the co-pilot of the Enola Gay bomber recall with regret what he and his crew ...

# The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was a multilateral pact that banned all nuclear test explosions, followed in the 1990s. # It was designed to prevent development of new nuclear ...

For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted ...

Flag-waving hyper-nationalists in America – and other places – conveniently forget the threat of nuclear war, and have become increasingly chauvinistic and escapist.