TOKYO—A movie about the atomic bomb’s creator was always going to be a touchy topic in the only country attacked with the weapon. But after an eight-month delay reflecting those sensitivities ...

The Oscars' best picture winner "Oppenheimer" premiered in Japan on Friday, nearly nine months after its global release, amid concerns about how the country would receive the movie as a victim of ...

Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project. “What were the Japanese thinking, carrying out the attack on Pearl Harbor, starting a war ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

The Strauss feud Although two atomic bombs ultimately dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not Germany — and Germany had already surrendered by then — Oppenheimer was ...

Japanese viewers, including some in the atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had varying reactions. "Oppenheimer" is set in the United States during World War Two.

Eight days after that, Japan informally surrendered to the Allied forces, effectively ending World War II. At the time, Oppenheimer celebrated and even said he wished the bomb had been made ...

The grandson of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the United States' development of nuclear bombs during World War Two, spoke in the country attacked with those weapons and called on the ...

For his movie about an exotic dancer who weds a Russian heir, Sean Baker won awards for best director, original screenplay ...