About 100 people have gathered for a wreath-laying service to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day).

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States unleashed a nuclear inferno over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. By the end of 1945, the attacks had killed 210,000 people, with 330,000 more dying ...

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the ...

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...

So when I published an essay during the summer of Barbenheimer that braided my nuclear obsession with my past grief, ...

The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

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 ...

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 ...