Overseas A-bomb sufferers exempted from visiting Japan

Overseas A-bomb sufferers exempted from visiting Japan

NAGASAKI, Japan - Supporters of Choi Gye Chol, a South Korean atomic-bomb victim who died at a hospital in Pusan in July aged 78, celebrate at the entrance to the Nagasaki District Court on Sept. 28 after the court ruled atomic-bomb sufferers do not have to visit Japan to apply for allowance for victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings. Choi filed a lawsuit seeking nullification of the Nagasaki city government's decision to reject his application for the allowance. In 1980 the Japanese government granted him the right to receive support when he visited Japan, but the permission was invalidated later the same year after he left Japan for South Korea. (Kyodo)

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