Japan commemorates 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima

“It carries the threat of nuclear weapons development, and as the 2011 Fukushima disaster demonstrated to the world, nuclear energy is neither safe, nor clean”, said Junichi. “It is our responsibility, and it is our duty”.

Yesterday’s anniversary also reminds us that the presidency is for serious people, like President Truman.

Eleven copies of the prints depicting the devastating impact of the world’s first atomic bomb to be dropped, form part of an exhibition at Scotland’s Secret Bunker, a disused Cold War nuclear bunker, near St Andrews.

Despite the ferocity of the final months of the war, Japan and the U.S. swiftly rebuilt their relationship and often refer to their alliance as the “cornerstone” of security in the region. US ambassador Caroline Kennedy and representatives from more than 100 countries, including Britain, France and Russian Federation, attended the ceremony.

The front of the jerseys featured the word “Peace” instead of “Carp” and the back of the jerseys had the word “Hiroshima” instead of the player names.

A ceremony was held today in Hiroshima’s memorial park where thousands of lanterns were let go into the city’s river, Motoyasu river.

Following the bombing, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki became known for their high rates of cancers, premature births and malformed babies.

In response, proponents of Japan’s pacifist constitution have organized protests around the country.

Surveys have indicated that a majority of the Japanese public is against the move, which involves a reinterpretation of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution, drafted during US occupation after the war.

“We must establish a broad national security framework that does not rely on use of force but is based on trust”, Mr Matsui said.

The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported that seven associations of Hiroshima survivors met with Abe on Thursday and demanded that he withdraw the bills clearing the way for the constitutional revision.

ArticleFive things your class should know on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombingWorld War II, Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, Japan. “We have been tasked with conveying the inhumanity of nuclear weapons, across generations and borders”.

Abe’s predecessors apologized for Japan’s wartime actions in their statements on the 50th and 60th anniversaries.

There were so many spontaneous fires set as a result of the bomb that a crewman of the Enola Gay stopped trying to count them.

But he said he “certainly wouldn’t rule out that kind of possibility into the future”.