UNEP is showcasing restoration initiatives in Kanazawa, Japan and other cities as part of a project to increase biodiversity in urban areas and make them more resilient to climate change.

Survivors hope their harrowing memories can help make their hometown the last place on Earth to be hit by a nuclear bomb.

Held annually on 30 August in Daisen City, Akita Prefecture, the Omagari Fireworks Festival is recognised as one of the most prestigious fireworks festivals in Japan. It hosts a national fireworks ...

People in Hiroshima launched lanterns onto the Motoyasu River, which flows through Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, to ...

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

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person, following the ...

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

Ruthless, brilliant, and unpredictable—Oda Nobunaga rose from chaos to seize power like no other warlord. This is the story of the man who began Japan’s unification with fire and steel.

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.