Dear students, dear
readers,
Hiroshima, 67 years ago
today...:
Hiroshima's dead remembered amid protest chants from Fukushima
Hiroshima honors A-bomb dead; protesters chant
Inside Hiroshima's Peace
Park, tens of thousands of survivors, relatives, government officials
and diplomats observed the 67th anniversary Monday of the city's
atomic bombing, while just outside others marked the occasion by
loudly protesting the decision to reactivate two nuclear reactors.
About 50,000 people,
including Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Foreign Minister Koichiro
Genba and the heads of the Lower and Upper houses, Takahiro Yokomichi
and Kenji Hirata, took part in the annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Ceremony, organizers said.
Hiroshima marks 67th anniversary of atomic bomb attack
Japan marked the 67th
anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony
on Monday that was attended by a grandson of Harry
Truman, the US president who ordered the bomb dropped on the city
of Hiroshima.
About 50,000 people gathered in Hiroshima's peace
park near the epicenter of the 1945 blast that destroyed most of the
city and killed as many as 140,000 people. A second atomic bombing
August 9 that year in Nagasaki killed tens of thousands more and
prompted Japan to surrender to the World
War II Allies.
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