Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

One year after receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, is seeking ways to continue its activities amid the aging of ...

The average age of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is now over 86. This presents a ...

The call to “Remember Pearl Harbor” echoes across the decades, here in Hawaii and throughout the U.S. It honors the military ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

Nuclear war creates the ultimate untreatable public health emergency. Prevention is not only the best option, it is the only ...

HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education here has completed its 2026 "Hiroshima peace calendar," continuing its annual effort to help children learn the importance of peace.

Imperial Japanese Navy sailor Sadamu Kamita, who died in Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, is revered as a “war ...

Japan's Empress Masako turned 62 on Tuesday, with stronger hope for peace cultivated through her visits this year to places associated with World War II. Marking the 80th year since the war ended, Emp ...

Debate is growing over plans to revise the country’s long-standing non-nuclear policy. Hibakusha groups fear Tokyo may ease restrictions on hosting nuclear weapons. They argue that the only nation to ...

Eighty years later, American Catholic bishops visited Japan to demand nuclear disarmament—and called for political leaders to ...