By YUICHIRO YONEDA/ Staff Writer
June 26, 2021 at 11:50 JST
Nobuko Oka visits the Nagasaki city office on June 2. (Yuichiro Yoneda)
NAGASAKI--At the age of 92, wartime student nurse Nobuko Oka will be the oldest hibakusha yet to declare the vow for peace at this year's annual ceremony to mark the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki. [Read More]
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