A person walks past the One-Pillar Torii Gate at Sannō Shrine, the only gate remaining of four gates after the 1945 atomic ...

Japan surrendered on Aug 15, ending World War II and its nearly half-century of aggression across Asia. In Nagasaki, part of ...

In a photo gallery published May 26, 2025, about a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing in Japan, The Associated Press ...

Nagasaki Peace Statue as seen at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, western Japan (Image: AP) Suzuki said his city is returning to its "fundamental purpose" of the ceremony - to mourn the atomic bomb ...

TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki Prefecture—A centuries-old Buddhist statue stolen from a temple here has finally returned home after 13 years, marking a significant moment for the local community.

This file photo taken on May 10, 2025, shows a 14th-century Buddhist statue that was stolen from a Japanese temple in October 2012, at Buseoksa Temple in Seosan, South Korea. (Kyodo) NAGASAKI ...

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 from a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple in Seosan, central South Korea, on Saturday ...

A special exhibition featuring a Buddhist statue recently returned from South Korea has opened at a museum in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki. The statue, designated by the prefecture ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Decorated with colorful paper cranes and blooming flowers, it doesn’t look the scene of a tragedy. On Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. forces detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki ...

Nagasaki Peace Statue is seen at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, western Japan, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Advertisement ...