The laboratory, which will study some of the deadliest viruses, has prompted concerns over a repeat of the coronavirus ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

NAGASAKI—The mayor of Nagasaki has decided not to invite a representative of Israel to attend the city’s peace ceremony on the Aug. 9 atomic bombing anniversary, citing the risk of possible ...

Now, we have another statue of the Virgin Mary in Nagasaki, that continues to remind us of our task to realize an enduring peace: the statue, called Hibaku no Maria, which means "Bombed Mary," is a ...

The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light fireworks and firecrackers at family graves and parade boats ferrying the spirits of the deceased through the streets ...

The Nagasaki prefectural government opened the orphanage known as Koyoryo in 1948, three years after the Aug. 9 bombing, about 3 kilometers north of ground zero, in what is now called the ...

In 1942, his father Johan became a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese Army in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. He was held in a camp in Nagasaki called Fukuoka 2. André says conditions were ...