VJ Day stands for Victory over Japan Day. It's the name given to the day in August 1945 when Japan surrendered, bringing the Second World War to a complete end. Earlier that year, on 8 May, Germany ...

Osaka police have arrested the president of a Tokyo-based company that maintains lists of names for allegedly selling ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a warning written in fire ...

On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the ...

The War Memorial is inscribed with the names of the fallen from the Great War and of those who lost their lives in the Second World War.

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

More A-bomb survivors in Japan are sending written life stories to the government-run memorial halls in Hiroshima and ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...

So when I published an essay during the summer of Barbenheimer that braided my nuclear obsession with my past grief, questioning why my first husband, J, had died of leukemia at the age of thirty-five ...