Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel, set in post-war Nagasaki and 1980s England, needed to be made into a ...

NAGASAKI--For decades, atomic bombing survivor Nobuko Oka did not want to share her story--even with her close relatives. She faced discrimination and became resigned to the notion that nobody ...

He chose the papal name Leo XIV. A senior Nihon Hidankyo official, Yokoyama Teruko, who experienced the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, has met two popes in the past. Yokoyama said the new pope is ...

Inside, the privately owned and operated Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage was established largely by the efforts of ...

A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima has expressed concerns about the possibility that nuclear weapons could be ...

Terumi Tanaka, 93, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing and co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, which received the 2024 Nobel ...

Invitation to a special meeting with Kunihiko Sakuma on May 22, 2025 – at the Berlin office of the International Peace Bureau ...

They expressed hopes that the new pontiff will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Francis, who visited Hiroshima and ...

Japan’s previous full-scale effort to collect survivor accounts occurred in 1995 ... A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, resulting in about 70,000 additional deaths.

Some Nagasaki citizens felt there was nothing they could do about the tree. But others wanted to preserve this survivor tree somehow, and their wish came true last autumn when the peace memorial ...

Kei Ishikawa's A Pale View of Hills, based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro, is a layered and thoughtful look at the lasting ...