Michael Wright, who died this week at 70, was one of those actors whose commitment to, and absorption by, the characters he ...

World War II officially ended with the surrender of the Empire of Japan aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor on Sept. 2, 1945. The 81st anniversary of that historic day is Wednesday. I hadn’t ...

Alma Rutgers served in Greenwich town government for more than 30 years, including on the Board of Health, Housing Authority, ...

History’s loudest recorded bang went off on August, 27 1883, Krakatoa. It was a day when a disaster became a planetary ...

You’ve probably noticed that many of your favorite TV news anchors are on vacation right now, because the conventional wisdom is that nothing ever happens in August. That conventional wisdom has been ...

The service at the Far East Prisoners of War Memorial in Mornington Crescent. BY FELIX BRIGHT. THE daughter of a soldier from ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” his sympathetic story of six Japanese men and women who ...

The revised succession law enacted by Japan’s Parliament in July lifts a ban on the adoption of male offspring from extremely ...

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Letters: Dr Simon Nieder on the global efforts needed to curb the threats posed by AI. Plus letters from Dr Anthony Harris and David Kyler ...

TOKYO — Prince Hisahito turned 20 on Sunday as he faces growing attention as a future monarch in Japan following the government’s unpopular revision to the Imperial House Law that reinforces male-only ...

The glassy sphere of hiroshimaite created in the atomic blast that contained a previously unknown metal alloy. L. Bindi et al., Science Advances, 2026 under CC-BY-4.0 On August 6, 1945, the United ...