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The legislation passed Japan’s lower house of parliament in May amid widespread criticism and a parliamentary walkout from opposition parties. But surveys show a majority of voters are opposed to what would be a significant shift in Japan’s defense policy.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday his government will make efforts to provide a sufficient amount of funding for the development of Okinawa Prefecture for fiscal 2016, which starts in April next year, according to the Jiji Press. The most controversial issue...

Work on the joint statement continued on Thursday, despite the fact that it was supposed to have been finished on Wednesday.

Their report, meant to serve as reference for Abe’s statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, covered more than 100 years of history in 38 pages.

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.

A message from UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon echoed the calls of Mr Taue and others to abolish nuclear weapons.

Norwegian People’s Aid, the labour movement’s humanitarian organisation for solidarity, has for many years been pushing the Norwegian politicians to take active, driving role in the fight to prohibit nuclear weapons.

Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire for his attempts to expand the military’s role.

An advisory panel to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on August. 6 released a report characterizing Japan’s military campaign from the 1931 Manchurian Incident in northeastern China through the end of World War II as “aggression, ” and also referred to Japan’s...

Per Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those three principles are, “not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons, in line with Japan’s Peace Constitution”.

Bells tolled as a solemn crowd observed a moment of silence at 8.15am local time, when the detonation turned the western Japanese city into an inferno, killing thousands instantly and leaving others to die a slow death with terrible injuries.

On August 6, 1945, the US atomic bomb “Little Boy” detonated about 2,000 feet above Hiroshima killing around 140,000 people.

Tens of thousands were injured and died later. The second bomb, “Fat Man”, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.

Their report, meant to serve as reference for Abe’s statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war, covered over 100 years of history in 38 pages.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima yesterday to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.