Atomic bomb survivors and others have gathered in southwestern Japan's Nagasaki City and urged the government to take part in the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons.

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki want the Japanese government to attend an upcoming meeting about the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons as an observer.

HIROSHIMA–Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki has invited new U.S. President Donald Trump to visit the prefectural capital in ...

Shigemitsu Tanaka, co-president of Nihon Hidankyo, the organization that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, says the world ...

Fukahori died at a hospital in Nagasaki, according to the Urakami Cathedral located in that city. The AP reported on his death on Sunday. The Urakami cathedral was itself destroyed in the atomic ...

While city officials and residents continue to grapple with the ... he called “the baton of peace,” in reference to his advocacy. When Pope Francis visited Nagasaki in 2019, Fukahori was the one who ...

South Korean Ambassador Kang Chang-il and a representative of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan) attended the unveiling ceremony with members of the Nagasaki city assembly and ...

Fukahori was only 14 when the U.S. dropped the second atomic bomb on a Japanese city, killing tens of thousands of people in Nagasaki. He could not talk about his experiences for many years ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died at the ...

They were sitting on the veranda of their house in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Feeling hungry, they went to the back of the house to get some food. That very act saved their lives. Only two ...

The first U.S. atomic bombing killed 140,000 people in the city of Hiroshima. A second atomic attack on Nagasaki killed another 70,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, bringing an end to a conflict ...