NAGASAKI -- The remains of the foundations of a prisoner-of-war camp that had stood about 1.7 kilometers south of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bombing were unearthed at a construction ...

The Japanese government issues "hibakusha" A-bomb survivor's certificates to people within around 7 kilometers east-west and approximately 12 km north-south of the Nagasaki atomic bombing hypocenter.

How 5 People Survived Nagasaki’s Nuclear Hell Three days after Hiroshima, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. A new book tells stories of those who lived through horror.

Francis, who was speaking at Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, ground zero of the bomb the United States dropped Aug. 9, 1945, instantly killing 27,000 people, also decried what he called ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing 74,000 people and injuring 75,000. Hiroyasu Tagawa, now 85, recounts his horrific experiences as a boy that day in ...

In a small area of Nagasaki that includes Hypocenter Park, the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, and Peace Park, dedicated teams of Japanese men and women still work tirelessly to counter the world’s ...

A photographer pays tribute to those who suffered from the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly 80 years ago. Left: Minoru Moriuchi (80*) NAGASAKI • 3 MILES FROM HYPOCENTER AT TIME OF ...

Pope Francis began his first full day in Japan Nov. 24 with a somber visit in the pouring rain to Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, a memorial to the tens of thousands who died when the ...

In Peace Park, Nagasaki’s open-air memorial to the atomic bomb’s hypocenter, stands a lonely external pillar, topped by saintly figures, which was part of Urakami Cathedral.

As global threats grow, aging survivors of US atomic attacks on Japan feel growing urgency to remind the world of nuclear war ...

Katsuko Murata, 80, who was in the former village of Himi, which is now part of the city of Nagasaki and was located some eight kilometers east of the hypocenter, remembers that after a blast from ...

NAGASAKI—About a thousand people attended a memorial Mass at the Urakami Cathedral here on April 27 for Pope Francis, who had visited Nagasaki and called for a world without nuclear weapons.