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Grounded carrier has split in half and poor conditions make removal of ship’s remaining oil riskyInternational experts and thousands of local volunteers were making frantic efforts on Sunday to protect Mauritius’s pristine beaches and rich marine wildl…
The royal family leads the UK’s commemorations on the 75th anniversary of VJ Day – the day the second world war ended with Japan’s surrender.Prince Charles led a two-minute silence at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, as part of a servi…
Naruhito reflects on war actions at Covid-curtailed ceremony, marked elsewhere by former foes as Victory in the Pacific or VJ DayJapan has marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in the second world war with Emperor Naruhito expressing “deep remor…
VJ Day was declared when emperor Hirohito ordered his people to stop fighting in second world warThe 75th anniversary of VJ Day – the victory over Japan which signalled the very end of the second world war – has been commemorated with a series of event…
Shinzo Abe had planned to visit family during O-bon holiday but political rival Tokyo mayor calls on capital’s residents to stay home Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of people who have been forced to cancel holidays…
‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% match in speeches given days apartSurvivors of the atomic bombings of 75 years ago have accused Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, of making …
America’s militarisation of the western Pacific island threatens its ecosystem, culture and history, a plea before the UN argues “It’s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment one … starts to see the great game afoot,” Julian Aguon says, before pausing, and…
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of Nagasaki was even more of a war crimeClifton Daniel is right about his grandfather’s bombing of Hiroshima (‘He felt he had to d…
CoCo Ichibanya hopes locals will approve of its signature hot dishes as it opens near DelhiIt sounds like the culinary equivalent of coals to Newcastle. But a popular Japanese restaurant chain is banking on diners in India to acquire a taste for its si…
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-minute video artwork marking the 75th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been released by the Imperial Wa…
City remembers world’s first atomic bombing with downsized ceremonies due to coronavirus and mayor urging nations to reject nationalism and unite to fight all threats Continue reading…
PM acclaimed Japan’s response as a model for the world, but has been largely silent amid record case risesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter Japan appeared to have brought the coronavirus outbreak under control in late Ma…
75 years after bombings, witnesses struggle to remind us of the horrors of nuclear weaponsAs they mark 75 years since their cities were destroyed in an instant, the ageing men and women who bore witness to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki …
Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unconscionable act of brutalitySeventy-five years after it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as …
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear warI keep a red file folder, its edges faded from nearly three decades of e…