Castro asks Japanese to tell of nuclear experience

HAVANA, Cuba - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (L) wears a ''happi'' coat presented by a Japanese delegation in Havana on March 1, 2012. Castro took part in a gathering of Japanese atomic-bomb survivors organized by the Cuban government and a Japanese NGO that day in the Cuban capital and called on them to convey to the world their experiences regarding the recent nuclear crisis in Japan and the 1945 U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo)

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