Japan on Sunday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bomb attack on the western city of Hiroshima with thousands of people attending an annual ceremony.
Participants, including survivors and their descendants, observed a minute’s silence at 8.15 am in the Peace Memorial Park near ground zero, the moment when a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the city 78 years ago in the closing days of World War II.In his Peace Declaration delivered at the ceremony, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged world leaders to abandon the theory of nuclear deterrence.
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