Emperor Naruhito has repeatedly stressed the importance to remember and keep telling the tragedy of the war to younger ...

Two Japanese atomic bomb survivors have appealed for the abolition of nuclear weapons in France, one of the world's nuclear powers. Eighty-seven-year-old Yahata Teruko and 82-year-old Iida ...

E. Tammy Kim reviews “Korean Nuclear Diaspora,” by Yuko Takahashi, a new ethnography of Korean survivors of the atomic-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.

According to Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger, reproductive justice “demands sexual autonomy and gender freedom for every ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

A clinical psychologist has formed grief care groups for survivors of war across Okinawa to help try to heal ... “I pulled the trigger,” a former Japanese soldier who had fought in the 1945 ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

The funeral for Chieko Mori's daughter and granddaughter was an affront to Japanese sacred customs — the two were placed in simple wooden coffins that soldiers lowered into a ditch ...

The American 10th Army has won the battle of Okinawa after 82 days of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific war, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today.

Scenes from the Japanese Internment Resonate Today. When the U.S. government held more than 120,000 civilians captive during World War II, it left an enduring stain on the nation.

Ross Minor lost his eyesight at 8 years old. Today, he’s a hardcore gamer who runs YouTube and Twitch channels and consults for big studios. This is not—necessarily—an inspirational story.