At least 2 people are likely dead and scores still missing after landslides and flooding hit southwest Japan after torrential rain.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged residents to "prioritise actions to save your lives" as heavy rainfall triggered ...

This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...

Singapore, Hong Kong, Imphal, Kohima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Names that will forever evoke images of the brutal war fought by the Allies against the Imperial Japanese Army in South East Asia. We ...

M embers of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) gathered at A.K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge Aug. 9 for demonstrations and other peaceful actions before they marched to the gates of the Y ...

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary ...

A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

A Japanese media organisation – citing people familiar with the matter – says a new location within Kanagawa prefecture, has ...