On Monday 24 November we welcomed The Deputy Director of the National Museum of Japanese History and the Minister for Public ...

A week-long commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the war was held at the University of Sydney. We spoke with two participants from Japan : actress Tokiko Tsuchiya, who works ...

Hiroshima, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision ...

The atomic bombs, first dropped in Hiroshima, then three days later in Nagasaki, brought a quick end to World War II. On one side of the Pacific Ocean, people across the United States rejoiced at its ...

If you are going to build a Peace Pagoda anywhere in the world, there would be few more appropriate locations than in ...

On funeral compositions, from Baroque clock songs and Old Polish music from the ‘camp of grief’ to electronic laments and ...

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

Setouchi invites visitors to embrace slow travel through historic onsen towns, world-class art sites, and nature experiences ...