Gov't ordered to pay S. Korean A-bomb survivor

Gov't ordered to pay S. Korean A-bomb survivor

FUKUOKA, Japan - Lee Kang Young (C), an atomic-bomb survivor living abroad, holds a news conference in Fukuoka on Feb. 7 after the Fukuoka High Court ordered the Japanese central government to pay a medical allowance to him as part of measures aimed at assisting survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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