VJ Day stands for Victory over Japan Day. It's the name given to the day in August 1945 when Japan surrendered, bringing the Second World War to a complete end. Earlier that year, on 8 May, Germany ...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States unleashed a nuclear inferno over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. By the end ...

The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.

More A-bomb survivors in Japan are sending written life stories to the government-run memorial halls in Hiroshima and ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the ...

Seeking to balance its alliance with the United States and its ties with Arab countries − which are major suppliers of oil ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...

Reg Draper was a stores assistant on Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York, which was sailing off the coast of Japan in ...