The following year, Fukahori represented the bomb victims at a ceremony, making his “pledge for peace,” saying: “I am determined to send our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an ...

visited the elementary school in Nagasaki for the first time in 55 years. She had been there just once, eight years after the bombing. But for more than half a century, she avoided the place where ...

A woman was arrested March 5 for allegedly locking her common-law husband naked on a balcony and causing his death from ...

The people of Nagasaki have a distinctive way to commemorate this. They light fireworks and firecrackers at family graves and parade boats ferrying the spirits of the deceased through the streets ...

Discover the Arita ceramics of Nagasaki, functionally beautiful furniture, Japan's historical gateway to the West in Nagasaki and more ...

At that time, the Nagasaki mayor said, “I want this ceremony to be a place where people from around the world can come together and pray for the abolition of nuclear weapons and the realization ...

The history of the Dutch trading post on Dejima began in 1609, when the Tokugawa shogunate granted the Netherlands trade rights with Japan and Dutch merchants s ...

Director Kawase Mika wants her documentary "The Postman from Nagasaki" to remind the world that the nuclear horrors inflicted on Japan must never be repeated. On August 9, 1945, the day an atomic ...

This file photo shows JR Nagasaki Station in the city of Nagasaki. (Mainichi/Kazushi Nomura) NAGASAKI -- A passenger on a bus connecting Nagasaki Airport to the city of Nagasaki was locked in the ...