Slap for Abe policy in Nagasaki

Still in The New York Times, a picture illustrated how a bell was tolled at 8:15 (local time) followed by a minute of silence to mourn for the moment that the city was incinerated by an atomic bomb.

Representatives from 75 countries, including US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, were among those gathered under a tall white canopy to shade them from the sun on a 31-degree-Celsius morning at Nagasaki Peace Park.

“As the only country attacked with an atomic bomb in war, I am renewing our determination to lead the global effort of nuclear disarmament, to create a world without such weapons“, the prime minister said.

The “three non-nuclear rules” are Japan’s long-standing coverage of not possessing or producing nuclear arms and never letting others convey them into the nation.

He was criticized for not mentioning the principles in his Hiroshima speech three days earlier.

“There is a burgeoning anxiety and concern that the oath etched upon our hearts 70 years ago, the peaceful ideal of the Japanese constitution, might be undermined”, said Taue.

Following his August 9 Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis strongly condemned the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Additionally, some 400,000 more people died – and are continuing to die – since the end of the Second World War from the impact of the bombs, from after-effects caused by radiation exposure, damaging DNA and other molecular structures within cells.

Walt Disney Japan have apologised after being accused of sending out an insensitive tweet on the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombings.

Almost everything around it was incinerated by a wall of heat up to 4,000 degrees Celsius (7,200 degrees Fahrenheit) – hot enough to melt steel. The bomb, known as “Little Boy”, that was dropped on the unsuspecting city killed at least 140,000 people who were in the city.

Abe’s cabinet adopted a resolution last year reinterpreting the pacifist constitution – drafted by the United States after World War II – to let Japan exercise collective self-defense or defend an ally under attack.

Gums bled, teeth fell out, hair came off in clumps; there were cancers, premature births, malformed babies and sudden deaths.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn’t end the war immediately, on August 15th, Japan’s emperor surrendered unconditionally.

The 84-year-old politician, who in his capacity as Russia’s premier worked with his US counterpart to reduce nuclear stockpiles, highlighted that the possession of nuclear weapons is “unacceptable” and “inhumane” in modern society.