The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.

The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...

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 ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.

Seeds from a tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester ahead of the 80th anniversary ...