Held annually on 30 August in Daisen City, Akita Prefecture, the Omagari Fireworks Festival is recognised as one of the most ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States was not necessary, an acclaimed novelist and speechwriter has ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese ...

Is anti‑foreign sentiment rising in Japan? Is melonpan going to kill you? A quick look at Sanseito and why people are afraid.

A major step forward in U.S. Air Force airfield resilience was reached this summer as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – ...

Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ageing survivors are urging the world to remember what was lost – and to imagine a ...

Steelcase, which stated Monday, Aug. 4, it is being acquired for $2.2 billion by HMI Corporation, came from humble beginnings ...

Sunday, Aug. 6, 1945, 8:15 am. A 12-year-old girl was walking to her seijinshiki ceremony, a traditional Japanese rite of ...

The project to build a long-delayed and debated bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily has cleared a major hurdle.