The Nagasaki Lantern Festival during which the streets of the port city in southwestern Japan are illuminated with ...

Seventy years ago this month U.S. atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing a total of roughly 200,000 Japanese people in the world's first, and so far only, use of nuclear ...

Ken Hirata, a 58-year-old former vice governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, has won the gubernatorial election in the southwestern ...

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second bomb fell on nearby Nagasaki. 140,000 died, but many of those who survived went on to lead extraordinary ...

Half a world apart, the Tri-Cities in Washington and Nagasaki in Japan are linked forever by the birth of the Atomic Age. In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II ...

‘After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain.’ 26 Martyrs Museum in Nagasaki, ...

Terumi Tanaka, who was just 13 years old when an atomic bomb fell on his city of Nagasaki, is working to make sure the world does not see a similar disaster Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands of civilians and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

Kerry says "everyone should visit" atomic bomb sites, but W.H. seems to agonize. — -- President Obama is heading to Japan later this month, a trip that has the White House weighing whether he’ll ...