One of the most painful things about growing older is the death of deeply loved and deeply wise mentors. A few years ago, during a terribly short span of time, three of my favorite priests passed away ...

A firsthand account written by a Hiroshima survivor nearly 80 years ago is finally set to reach readers around the world this summer after being discovered in a U.S. archive. The long-forgotten memoir ...

On the morning the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, resident Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, was on his way out of town transporting a handcart of items to a ...

Kikuko (Kiko) Otake was only 5 years old during the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 6 and on Aug. 9 of 1945. For years afterward, she kept the horrific memory of ...

When the Nobel Peace Prize went to the Japanese grassroots organization Nihon Hidankyo three weeks ago, it arrived, in a sense, in the nick of time. Many of the group’s members are hibakusha, ...

At 8.15 am on August 6, 1945, the 'Little Boy' exploded in Hiroshima, changing the fate of its people for years. Dropped by the American Boeing B-29 bomber Enola Gay, the uranium-based gun-type bomb ...

After the atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, historians and survivors, alike, have collected information on the bomb’s destruction and future impact. The modern city of Hiroshima ...

KAWAGOE, Japan >> Hopes are rising that more attention will be paid to a couple who created a series of large paintings depicting the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, following Nihon ...