HIROSHIMA--Authorities here tightened security this year at annual memorial services ... the venue of the memorial ceremony around 2012, a year after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ...

Hiroshima Mayor Matsui Kazumi wants Japan to become a party to the UN ... Today, at this Peace Memorial Ceremony marking 79 years since the bombing, we offer our deepest condolences to the souls ...

Japan announced its surrender in World ... Cohen, who attended a similar memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on Tuesday, said last week that the Nagasaki decision "sends a wrong message to the world".

A delegation from the Hiroshima Peace Group recently visited the Persian Gulf Island of Khark at the invitation of island officials and residents. The group, visiting from Hiroshima, Japan, extended ...

G-7 leaders laid wreaths and planted trees at the Hiroshima memorial for atomic bomb victims on Friday ahead of the G-7 summit in Japan, where they’re expected to announce a new round of ...

Japan has seen various public protests ... Ambassador Cohen did attend the Aug. 6 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui said at a news conference on Aug. 1 that the ...

Days later Japan surrendered. Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and some 74,000 others ... Britain and others snubbed ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited US President Donald Trump to visit this year for the 80th anniversary of ...