Foreign students hit by A-bomb to be honored

Foreign students hit by A-bomb to be honored

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A 1994 file photo shows former Brunei Prime Minister Pengiran Yusuf. Hiroshima University said on Dec. 26, 2012, it will bestow an honorary doctorate degree on three of its former students from Southeast Asia who were forced to quit their studies after the western Japan city was hit by the 1945 atomic bombing during World War II.

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