Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, ... and hibakusha atomic bomb survivors call for a ceasefire," the statement said.

Emperor Naruhito has repeatedly stressed the importance to remember and keep telling the tragedy of the war to younger ...

As the world approaches the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, new controversy ...

A former manager of Nihon University’s weightlifting club who was arrested for fraudulently collecting school fees from scholarship students also forced coaches to drive him to and from work ...

The prize went to Nihon Hidankyo, an association of survivors of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 — the only time nuclear weapons have ever been used in wartime.

August 6 will mark 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Little Boy, as the bomb was nicknamed, killed 80,000 people instantly. By the end of the year ...

Toshiko Saiki, a late "hibakusha" survivor who lost 13 relatives to the A-bomb, was the de facto "guardian" of this memorial mound. She visited the mound almost every day for about 40 years, and ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei blamed worsening traffic snarls for delays in expanding its base in southwestern Japan, even while a parallel US effort ...

Unlike blood from humans, however, the artificial variety being tested in Japan does not need to match a certain blood type for transfusions. Like “universal donor” Type O- blood, the ...