‘After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain.’ 26 Martyrs Museum in Nagasaki, ...

The Canadian women's soccer team will play two matches against Japan in Nagasaki during the November FIFA international ...

Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

NAGASAKI--Taiwan for the first time will attend Nagasaki’s annual Peace Memorial Ceremony on Aug. 9 to mark the 80th anniversary of the city’s atomic bombing. Mayor Shiro Suzuki told reporters on July ...

Hibakusha groups fear Tokyo may ease restrictions on hosting nuclear weapons. They argue that the only nation to suffer wartime atomic bombings must not reopen the door to nuclear deployments.

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family's Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

Most accounts of World War II in the Pacific tend to overlook an important fact: Japan did not sue for peace immediately after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It took two atomic bombs ...

The riddle of Japanese Catholicism has long fascinated me. At the end of World War II, Catholics were less than 1% of the population of Japan. Today, 80 years later, Catholics are less than 1% of the ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands of civilians and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

NAGASAKI—The prefectural government's dreams of a financial jackpot have ended, deciding to withdraw a plan to construct an integrated resort that included a casino in the prefecture. The ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — On the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, Sanae Ikeda was anything but the obedient son. His mother told him to stay home with his sisters and brothers while she went to a farmer’s house for ...

Japan is commemorating the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War Two. The city has honored the tens of thousands of victims in an annual ceremony, with representatives ...