The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on Aug 6 and 9, 1945 – the only times nuclear weapons have ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of the tragedy later this year. Naruhito, accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako, ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of ...

Emperor Naruhito met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Imperial Palace here on June 18, during the president's visit to Ja･･･ ...

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Naruhito met separately with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako paid their respects to the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, accompanied by their daughter Princess Aiko on ...

Tokyo, June 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Naruhito met with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, who is visiting Japan for the World Exposition in Osaka, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on ...

August 6 will mark 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Little Boy, as the bomb was nicknamed, killed 80,000 people instantly. By the end of the year ...

Tokyo, Jun 5 (AP) Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to honour the dead ahead of the 80th anniversary of one of the harshest battles of World War II. On what was his seventh ...