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HIROSHIMA ---About 50,000 people attended the peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on Tuesday to honor victims of the atomic bombing in 1945. As the era has shifted from Showa to Heisei to Reiwa, the number of people still alive who were harmed by the bombWorld free of nuclear weapons urged at Hiroshima ceremony
HIROSHIMA ---About 50,000 people attended the peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on Tuesday to honor victims of the atomic bombing in 1945. As the era has shifted from Showa to Heisei to Reiwa, the number of people still alive who were harmed by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has dropped below 150,000 for the first time, raising the issue of how to hand down experiences and lessons learned from the attacks to the younger generations. In his Peace Declaration, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui touched on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons passed at the United Nations in 2017, and went on to urge the government to display leadership toward "a world free from n...Keep on reading: World free of nuclear weapons urged at Hiroshima ceremony Read more