(1)Court rejects state appeal of overseas A-bomb survivor ruling

OSAKA, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hoon, 78, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, walks into the Osaka High Court on Dec. 5. The court rejected the state's appeal and upheld an earlier lower court ruling ordering the central and Osaka prefectural governments to pay a medical allowance to an atomic bomb survivor living abroad. It is the first high court ruling to recognize that atomic-bomb survivors or ''hibakusha'' living abroad are eligible to receive the allowance based on the Atomic Bomb Victims Relief Law on the same terms as those living in Japan. (Kyodo)

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