Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

On May 1, 1945, General George S. Patton arrived at Moosburg just after the town fell, expecting a routine inspection but ...

Hiroshima, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing ...

From The Towering Inferno to Titanic, these are the greatest disaster movies of the last century, proving the genre is as ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision ...

Japanese studies scholar Sheftall turns to the bombing of Nagasaki in this harrowing follow-up to Hiroshima. In his opening passages, Sheftall briefly surveys Nagasaki’s history, particularly the ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the treat that has thrived in its new homeland. Today, ...

Firefighters are battling a fire that has burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people ...

November 1st marks 70 years since the horrific bombing of United Flight 629 in Colorado, which claimed 44 lives. Now, for the first time, a permanent memorial will honor the memory of those lives lost ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II this summer with solemn ceremonies in Tokyo and Hiroshima, underscoring how the nation is running out of time to preserve the memory ...

A Russian aerial bomb attack on Tuesday killed at least 25 people and wounded 19 more in the rural Ukrainian village of Yarova in the eastern Donetsk region, according to Ukrainian officials.