Nagasaki
May 24, 2013
The Japanese Embassy in Seoul has twice filed protests with a South Korean newspaper on the following days after it carried a column on May 20 that described the August 1945...
April 28, 2013
Even at the age of 96, Shuntaro Hida, a physician who survived the first-ever atomic bombing in history, has no plans to stop working toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.
April 26, 2013
Scholars, mayors and atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki lambasted the Japanese government for not signing a joint statement by dozens of nations calling for the...
April 25, 2013
GENEVA--Despite being the only nation to have suffered atomic bombing, Japan has again refused to sign a document that describes nuclear weapons as inhumane.
March 26, 2013
NAGASAKI--A bronze statue of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and his Japanese financial supporters has been erected at Nagasaki Port.
January 20, 2013
Two scholars who have spent their careers collating first-hand accounts of atomic victims from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and using those experiences to push for nuclear...
January 11, 2013
NAGASAKI--A curious seafaring vessel, shaped like the home plate of a baseball diamond, is under construction at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s Nagasaki Shipyard &...
January 08, 2013
Renowned postwar photographer Shomei Tomatsu died of pneumonia in a hospital in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 14. He was 82.
August 16, 2012
Two Brazilian high school students selected as peace ambassadors will join 16 Japanese counterparts to deliver signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear power to the...
August 11, 2012
A new website uses Google Earth technology combined with historical photographs and personal testimonies for a neighborhood-by-neighborhood view of the atomic bombing of...
August 10, 2012
Long before the disastrous nuclear accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, physicist Yuko Fujita warned that doomsday was coming.
August 10, 2012
As in previous years, this year's ceremony to memorialize the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, opened with a song sung by Himawari (Sunflower), a choir formed by...
August 09, 2012
NAGASAKI--The last thing anybody expected was a nuclear disaster on the scale of the one that occurred in Japan last year: But not Hitoshi Motoshima, a former mayor of Nagasaki.
August 09, 2012
NAGASAKI--Nagasaki marked the 67th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing on Aug. 9 with a pledge to continue its support for victims of last year's nuclear disaster.
August 09, 2012
A documentary to be shown in a Tokyo theater soon depicts atomic bomb survivors in a Nagasaki nursing care home coming to grips with their experiences 67 years ago.
August 08, 2012
NAGASAKI--Hirofumi Ogawa watched the events of last year's nuclear disaster unfold with a sense of both dread and déjà vu.
August 08, 2012
SEOUL--Researchers from Japan and South Korea have agreed to start joint research on the possible hereditary effects of radiation exposure on the offspring of South Koreans who ...
August 04, 2012
NAGASAKI--Most of us probably cannot imagine a time when the world will be nuclear-free.
August 03, 2012
NAGASAKI--Memorabilia of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb blasts at the end of World War II, will be displayed in Iceland for a two-month period from Aug. 9.
July 29, 2012
NAGASAKI--Children at a Nagasaki elementary school are creating their version of “Guernica,” the famous anti-war work by Pablo Picasso.