Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to expand the subsidy for medical expenses provided to official “hibakusha” victims in Nagasaki so that those who fall outside the designated area for recognition ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Katsumoto Saotome was 12 the night he ran for his life through a sea of flames, jumping over smouldering railroad ties along a train track as U.S. B-29 bombers rained incendiary ...

CHIBA--To mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, the local government here set up an online archive to preserve and share memories of the devastating wartime air raids over the ...

DAYTON, Ohio, April 18 (Reuters) - Four of the last five survivors of a U.S. World War Two bombing mission over Japan reunited on Wednesday, 70 years after the "Doolittle Tokyo raiders" shocked Japan ...

Americans expressed mixed views on whether the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified, a survey by a U.S. research group showed Monday, signaling a possible ...

Don't forget that a lot of the answers to such a question would depend on how the person was taught about what happened. For example, if they were taught that the bombings saved tens of thousands of ...

Trudging through the ruins of Hiroshima four days after the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945, 5-year-old Masaki Hironaka clutched his mother’s hand and silently vowed to protect her. It's one ...