Japan marks 75th anniversary of atomic bombing on the city of Hiroshima that killed 140,000 people with downsized ceremonies due to the novel coronavirus
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers a wreath to the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 2020.
Though thousands usually pack the Peace Park in central Hiroshima on Thursday to pray, sing and lay paper cranes as a symbol of peace, entrance was sharply limited and only survivors and their families could attend the memorial ceremony itself. On Thursday, at the exact time the bomb exploded, the crowd stood for a moment of silence in the heavy summer heat while cicadas shrilled and the Peace Bell rang.
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