On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...

For Aditya-L1, India's first solar observation mission in space, the year 2026 is expected to be like no other. It's the ...

Gwyn McClelland is the former recipient of a National Library of Australia Fellowship and a Japan Foundation Fellowship. He is the president of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. At first, ...

Thirteen new documentaries drop on Netflix in October 2025. Ranging from music docuseries to true crime, there’s something for everyone. Netflix’s debuted just six documentaries in September 2025. As ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family paid their respects Friday to the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago of the city of Nagasaki. Naruhito, his wife, Empress Masako, ...

Director James Cameron plans to bring Charles Pellegrino’s book ‘Ghosts of Hiroshima’ to the screen. It may prove to be his greatest challenge yet. Eighty years after the world’s only nuclear attack, ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...

It's been 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attacks killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ushered in a ...

To the editor: Acknowledging that the war crimes of imperial Japan were informed by a ruthlessness akin to Nazi Germany does not explain (or justify) the choice of densely populated cities as targets ...

This year marks another solemn anniversary of the atomic bombings—80 years since the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 120 national representatives gathered in Hiroshima this ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

NAGASAKI – Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city’s atomic bombing, as the mayor warned that current global conflicts could push the ...