Jimin, a member of popular South Korean boyband BTS, was photographed wearing a shirt with a photo depicting an atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. The show sparked controversy and Japanese TV channel Asahi canceled Asahi’s performance on Friday night. Hundreds of thousands of people died after the US dropped […]
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A postman who survived the Nagasaki A-bomb has died at 88
© JIJI PRESS/AFP/File STR Tokyo (AFP) – Prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was delivering mail in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Taniguchi, once considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at a hospital in the southwestern […]
Japan marks the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki amid US-North Korea tensions
Reuters TOKYO (AP) — Amid growing tension between Washington and North Korea, the mayor of Nagasaki said Tuesday that the fear of another nuclear bomb attack is growing at a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of his city. Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue urged nuclear states to abandon such weapons and […]