For pacifists, the answer is clear: since any deliberate killing is wrong, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 was wrong about two hundred thousand times over ...

There remain just 792 living veterans, while the average age of the 99,130 living atomic bomb survivors is 86 years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A two-minute silence and special ceremony are being held for Victory over Japan Day to mark the end of World War Two in the ...

On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, Shigeru Ishiba expressed ‘remorse’ – a first for a PM since ...

Many of the veterans have never told their story before registering with the Royal British Legion to be part of ...

How can we celebrate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, knowing that victory was bought by the dropping of atomic bombs? For ...

TOKYO (AP) — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as ...

Mr Hilling, who joined the RAF in April 1944 before being transferred to the Army and serving in India in 1945 before his ...

COMMENTARY: On the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Japan in World War II, it is essential that we look at our ...

This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow.

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...