But what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and what were the events that led to the attacks? Tensions between the US and Japan had been growing for decades before the Second World War.

It is fine for Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama to honor the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims. But in a historical and moral sense, any such commemoration must be offered in the context ...

Nearly eight decades ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s ...

A woman who survived the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently chose to come out of the shadows and share her unique story. 94-year-old Fukui Kinuyo survived the bombings of both ...

recently gained negative attention on X, formerly Twitter, for a video posted on Friday night where he said Gaza should be treated "like Nagasaki and Hiroshima" in an attempt to "get it over quick." ...

President Barack Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in 2016. In a separate development, Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki has also announced plans to invite Trump to the city ...

TASS/. Attempts by Japan to distort history and hush up the role the United States played in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are puzzling, Farit Mukhametshin, deputy chair of the ...

Ari Beser, the grandson of the only U.S. crewman to fly on both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing runs, is on a quest for nuclear disarmament, one that has led him to Japan — and to face-to ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited US President Donald Trump to visit this year for the 80th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombings, officials said Wednesday. In a joint ...

At the time, the prime minister would alternate his attendance every year, going to the memorial ceremony in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but now the prime minister normally visits both cities.

A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Hosoi Soshi started working as the youngest "exchange ...

recently gained negative attention on X, formerly Twitter, for a video posted on Friday night where he said Gaza should be treated "like Nagasaki and Hiroshima" in an attempt to "get it over quick." ...