Anti-nuclear demonstration in Na

Anti-nuclear demonstration in Na

A group of 80 people held a sit-in at Nagasaki's Peace Park May 31 to denounce Pakistan's second round of nuclear tests this week. Participants include Japanese and Korean survivors from the 1945 atomic bomb that flattened the southern Kyushu city in the closing days of World War II. ==Kyodo

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