The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...

Seeds from a tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester ahead of the 80th anniversary ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

History routinely affords illuminating insights on existential challenges which have confronted humanity. Apprehending that ...

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

Sci-fi maestro James Cameron is staying busy these days, working on launching his new Avatar entry (Avatar: Fire and Ash) as ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

THIS month marks two anniversaries that, if we lived in a world with historical memory, would be front-page news.August 6 and ...

Brendan Fay, nuclear disarmament activist with (NYCAN - New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) welcomed Japanese Peace ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of our country dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A few days after the ...

"We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating nuclear weapons. Let us ...

# The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was a multilateral pact that banned all nuclear test explosions, followed in the 1990s. # It was designed to prevent development of new nuclear ...