This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Perhaps the most heartbreaking thing about the town of Namie is that at first glance nothing seems amiss. The blue ...

The chair of the just-ended UN meeting on banning nuclear weapons has urged Japanese civil society to continue working towards a nuclear-free world. Kazakhstan's First Deputy Foreign Minister Akan ...

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday, noting U.S. nuclear deterrence is crucial to the country's security ...