I have always loved traveling.When I was a student, I would travel around Kyushu using the Seishun 18 Kippu or go hiking in ...

From 1929 for 15 years, the island of Okunoshima was hidden from the world after Japan erased this top‑secret military base from the map. In this video, Andy Burgess travels to Okunoshima to explore ...

Just days after Japan’s surrender, as the shock of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still hung over the nation, reports reached what ...

The closing ceremony of the 20th Asian Summer Games was held in Nagoya, officially bringing the continental sporting event to ...

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Edion Peace Wing Hiroshima (E-Peace) is located within walking distance of Hiroshima's central urban areas, such as the ...

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park will host the Peacepo Dialogue Tour on 25 October 2026, a guided programme linking memorial ...

The logbook was kept by Enola Gay co-pilot Capt. Robert A. Lewis aboard the B-29 Superfortress during the Hiroshima atomic bomb mission on Aug. 6, 1945.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” his sympathetic story of six Japanese men and women who survived the first of the two atomic bombs America dropped on Japan during ...

The world changed forever on 6 August 1945. That was the day humanity first deliberately turned the most powerful weapon ever conceived upon itself – when the US unleashed an atomic bomb on the people ...

In the morning of August 6, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to head home. The 29-year-old engineer had been in Hiroshima for three months on a business trip and was scheduled to return home to ...