Japan’s defence minister, Fumio Kyuma, resigned on July 3, just three days after he provoked public outrage by declaring that the US “could not help” but drop atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945.

Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma handed in his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, three days after making remarks derided as justifying the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan. Defense ...

Japan's defence minister resigned today after suggesting that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable, dealing a fresh blow to the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, less than a month ...

As a native son of Nagasaki, Fumio Kyuma really should have known better. On June 30, Japan’s defense minister gave a speech on World War II at a university outside of Tokyo, where he told students ...

Regarding the July 1 front-page story "A-bombings 'couldn't be helped': Kyuma": Someone finally had to say it in Japanese politics, although Fumio Kyuma (who resigned as defense minister Tuesday) ...