The Nagasaki Lantern Festival during which the streets of the port city in southwestern Japan are illuminated with ...

Ken Hirata, a 58-year-old former vice governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, has won the gubernatorial election in the southwestern ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary photos of one survivor of the attack. Sumiteru Taniguchi ...

‘After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain.’ 26 Martyrs Museum in Nagasaki, ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands of civilians and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second bomb fell on nearby Nagasaki. 140,000 died, but many of those who survived went on to lead extraordinary ...

NAGASAKI, Japan --The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government's push to loosen restrictions on ...