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

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

OSAKA, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hoon (R), 78, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, smiles at a news conference Dec. 5 after the Osaka High 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.

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