In a national ceremony Friday at Tokyo’s Budokan hall, about 4,500 officials and bereaved families and their descendants ...

"We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating nuclear weapons. Let us ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II.

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the ...

Nagasaki has marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city in Japan. Survivors are determined to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday pledged that Japan will never again take the path to war, expressing “remorse” over World War II.

NAGASAKI, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the ...

The photos, originally published in 2015 by Eugene Hoshiko, the AP chief photographer in Tokyo, show more than remnants of ...

Prayer is the most powerful means to bring peace to souls, to give them happiness, because it brings them closer to God’s love. … Only through prayer can o ...

Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener sings with The Peaceabilities as Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance holds a peace vigil for 80th ...

“Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city.