When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.

In the 80 years since the U.S. attacks on Japan, no other country has used a nuclear weapon in war. That remarkable record could soon be broken and all progress lost.

This year Naruhito and Masako are expected to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki to pay tribute to those killed by the bombings, and Okinawa, the site of one of the harshest battles in the war.

In 2015, an event in Nagasaki added more nuance to André's view. People there paid for a stone memorial for prisoners of war and their families, and they erected it at the site of the camp.

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...

Fukahori died at a hospital in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan ... Japan surrendered days later, ending World War II and the country's nearly half-century of aggression across Asia.

Kazuyuki moved to Nagasaki with his classmates at age 14 for mobilization at Mitsubishi’s weapons factories as part of Japan’s war effort. “I’m working hard every day while enduring the ...

These two books describe how American doctors were linked to troubling events during World War II that raised thorny moral issues around medicine and war.

Director Honda, a former soldier of World War II who had passed through the ... forever changed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After suffering more than 220,000 casualties ...

NAGASAKI--A cenotaph featuring flying cranes, a symbol of peace, was unveiled here May 4 in memory of prisoners of war who perished in the city’s atomic bombing. About 200 prisoners ...

A memorial service was held on Monday at a park facility in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, marking the 80th anniversary of a massive ...