History routinely affords illuminating insights on existential challenges which have confronted humanity. Apprehending that ...

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

Prayer is the most powerful means to bring peace to souls, to give them happiness, because it brings them closer to God’s love. … Only through prayer can o ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of our country dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A few days after the ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko will visit Nagasaki next month, the last in a ...

The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...

If Japan had not marched toward war, ordinary people would not have suffered immense hardship. Yet, adequate compensation has ...

Worthing Peace Group has marked Nagasaki Day by hanging 80 peace cranes on the Worthing Peace Tree. The symbolic moment of reflection followed a gathering in Homefield Park on August 9 to mark the ...

Japan faces with growing urgency the question of how to carry forward the moral voice for ridding the world of nuclear ...

Nagasaki has marked the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city 80 years ago, with survivors determined to make their ...