HIROSHIMA--Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

HIROSHIMA--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stopped short of ruling out future revisions to Japan’s non-nuclear weapons policy during her visit here for the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, choosing to ...

A teenage girl who tragically lost her life in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been identified nearly 80 years later through DNA analysis. The 13-year-old victim, named Hatsue Kajiyama, died on ...

Tuesday marks 79 years since an atomic bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Mayor ...

FILE - U.S. President Barack Obama, second from left, shakes hands with Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor and a creator of the memorial for American WWII POWs killed in Hiroshima, during a ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...

Japan in World War II. Latest atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki news, community discussion, the IJR Score and key fa ...

TOKYO -- Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan's hits record, has died. He was 86. The Golden Players Club, an organization for elite baseball ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori as he visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo TOKYO, ...