Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...

Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.

The map below shows the location of Hiroshima and Tokyo. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

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The Hiroshima District Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the operation of the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power's Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture.

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha ... taking up residence in places such as Yamagata Prefecture and Tokyo. It was enshrined at the Daibutsuden hall of Sairenji temple, located on ...

"It was like the surface of the Moon". British historian Richard Overy, author of "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan", said that creating "an unstoppable conflagration" was ...