More than seven decades after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, President Barack Obama is set to become the first U.S.

It almost feels like a Haruki Murakami novel: A new tool lets you experience a Japanese town from a cat’s eye-view, and even hang out with the neighborhood cats. The online map, unveiled this week by ...

When President Obama visits Hiroshima on May 27, the city that was devastated by an atomic bomb in 1945 may surprise the world. Seventy-one years later, Hiroshima is a modern, vibrant city with ...

Stepping off the bullet train into a cold Hiroshima morning, we could sense the past. My wife Irene and I became immersed in its history by chance. A journey through New Mexico took us to Los Alamos.

" Chasing a Plate is in Hiroshima, Japan. We visit the Hiroshima Peace Park and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum which is an amazingly curated museum. We learn all about the devastation of the atomic ...

I have always wanted to visit Hiroshima, Japan. My father was the ship’s radio operator during World War II and had been at Okinawa during the assault. They were preparing for a Japan invasion when ...

Hiroshima okonomiyaki is the city’s treasured dish, made of grilled layers of pancakes, soba noodles, cabbage, special sauce and toppings such as Hiroshima tempura squid or oysters from the nearby ...

I travel with many cameras, but find more and more often that it’s my phone that I use to capture whatever experience I’m having–it’s small, quick, easy and unobtrusive. And so after arriving in ...

Subscribe for more food and travel videos: <a href=" Chasing a Plate travels from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Find out how to travel Japan for cheap in this video. Prior to arriving in Japan we bought a 3 ...

It’s OK to wear black socks with white running shoes in Japan. That’s what I tell myself as I tighten my laces and head down the hall of my hotel. It’s not like I’m going to blend in anyway. The ...