THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 10, 2019 at 14:25 JST
A Christian cross returned from the United States and a wooden Virgin Mary statue, both of which survived the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki, are carried into Urakami Cathedral on Aug. 9. (Masaru Komiyaji)
NAGASAKI--Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue began reading his Aug. 9 peace declaration with a poem by a woman who survived the city's atomic bombing 74 years ago, but lost her mother and siblings in the process. [Read More]
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