Earlier this month, reports from Japan piqued curiosity as it was revealed a seminal World War II manga was ousted from schools in Hiroshima. For years, Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen has been used ...

On Friday, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, Japan where America dropped an atomic bomb during World War II on August 6, 1945. The bombing of Hiroshima continues ...

Fritz Bilfinger spent the Second World War as a liaison of the International Committee of the Red Cross. His job was prevailing upon the Japanese government in Tokyo to respect the Geneva Conventions ...

LITTLE TOKYO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Survivors of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima are sharing their stories with young performers involved in a musical about that time in history. The hope for both ...

78 years ago, on 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States of America dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More than 250,000 people died in the nuclear inferno. An equal ...

STORY: Just a short ferry ride from Hiroshima lies the small island of Ninoshima, where the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago can still be found. Rebun Kayo, a researcher at ...

Hiroshima. I heard the name for the first time when I was 9, in Kokand, Uzbekistan. Just three months earlier, we had celebrated the victory over Nazism. Stalin had spoken. I heard him on the radio.

"War is hell," William Tecumseh Sherman said. That's why, 151 years ago, Sherman led his march to the Sea — because ending a war is a truly noble cause. Ronald Reagan, on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day ...

For the first time, thanks to Hiroshima, human beings became an endangered species. People everywhere were presented with an existential choice between the quick and the dead, between one world and ...

Reporting from HIROSHIMA, Japan — It’s midday on a Thursday and Yoshihiro Ueuchi is preparing to preach some culinary gospel. Szzzzzzz! The hot metal hisses as Ueuchi ladles a simple water-and-flour ...

Rebun Kayo looks for the bone fragments unearthed at a site on Ninoshima Island NINOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of ...