Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19 and 20 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end ...

Once a devastated wasteland, Hiroshima has become an example of perseverance in rebuilding itself. Visitors have been coming ever since to learn and understand how these things can not happen again to ...

Somber historical sites can prevent a real challenge to traveling families: you can’t fully experience a location without including them in your itinerary, but balancing the sensitivity and behavior ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to heal old wounds and galvanize new generations, President Barack Obama this month will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, where seven decades ago ...

Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site where at least 140,000 people died from an atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama’s decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren’t seeking an apology. Even those who ...

Now 92 years old, Kikyomi Kouno recalled a local train trip with her mother 79 years ago from their home, 22 miles outside of Hiroshima, to search for her two sisters in the city that had been hit ...

HIROSHIMA—The leader of a nonprofit organization here was shocked to find an Iranian man she has known for about two decades drained and emaciated when she met him recently in Europe amid the U.S. and ...

President Biden will visit the peace memorial in Japan that recognizes the 140,000 people killed after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the White House said Tuesday. Mr. Biden ...