Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ... According to a Tokyo-based association specializing in detecting ...

"Enemy bombers appeared over Tokyo for the first time since the outbreak of the current war of Greater East Asia. "The bombing inflicted telling damages on schools and hospitals. "The raid ...

After the 1945 US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II, many people who ...

Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an ...

A group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors representing Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Nihon Hidankyo left Tokyo on Sunday ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Empress Masako said the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of survivors of ...

speaks to The Independent in the group’s office in Tokyo (Adam Withnall/The Independent) Mr Tanaka is the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo – The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers ...

Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear ...