This small island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan has been completely uninhabited for the last 40 years. Gunkanjima was established by Mitsubishi at the beginning of the twentieth century because ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading ...

A Paleolithic period cave dating back 19,000 years ago in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture ... was discovered more than 80 years ago. The cave ruins date to the Paleolithic period and the early ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace has died TOKYO -- Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. The article contains graphic images and ...

OSLO, Norway — A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki described on ... corpses of his loved ones and the ruins of his city, as he accepted this ...

The weapons have grown exponentially in power and number since being used for the first and only time in warfare by the United States on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945. The bombings pushed Japan ...