Gov't appeals ruling on A-bomb "black rain" victims

Gov't appeals ruling on A-bomb "black rain" victims

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui meets the press in Hiroshima on Aug. 12, 2020, after the central government, together with the western Japan city, appealed a recent court ruling awarding state health care benefits to people exposed to radioactive "black rain" that fell immediately after the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima outside a zone it currently designates.

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