1,560 miles north of Tinian is the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It is densely populated and one of the chief supply depots for the Japanese army. The Americans have subjected Japanese cities to a ...

The city of Hiroshima is best known among overseas visitors as the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. The city’s association with nuclear weapons has been underscored by the recent Nobel Peace ...

HIROSHIMA–Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki has invited new U.S. President Donald Trump to visit the prefectural capital in ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...

a year after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ravaged the northeastern Tohoku region. Struggling to handle the noise problem, Hiroshima city embarked on a questionnaire survey targeting ...

He added that it is Japan's responsibility to bring them closer to the pact. People at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park are writing messages on paper lanterns that will be floated down the river ...

Shiro Suzuki, mayor of Nagasaki, the only other Japanese city to suffer an atomic bomb attack, also said at a press conference ahead of Trump's inauguration that he hoped the incoming leader will ...

"From Hiroshima’s standpoint, the horror of nuclear weapons was not sufficiently depicted," he told Japanese reporters, ...

Following the trip, NHK World Editor-in-Chief Mitamura Taro sat down with Ukraine's ambassador to Japan, Sergiy Korsunsky, for a discussion about Zelenskyy's time in Hiroshima, as well as Japan's ...