Japan’s prime minister hit out at Russian threats to make use of nuclear weapons because the nation marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Sunday.
Around 140,000 individuals died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the 2 Japanese cities days earlier than the tip of World War 2.
“Japan, as the only nation to have suffered atomic bombings in war, will continue efforts towards a nuclear-free world,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida mentioned at a ceremony in Hiroshima.
“The path towards it is becoming increasingly difficult because of deepening divisions in the international community over nuclear disarmament and Russia’s nuclear threat,” he mentioned.
At the ceremony, hundreds of individuals — survivors, kinfolk and overseas dignitaries from a document 111 nations — prayed for these killed or wounded within the bombing and known as for world peace.
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