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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial ceremony in the southwestern Japan city.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at Peace Park in Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in 1945.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial mass at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial mass at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial ceremony in the southwestern Japan city. (Pool photo)

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

People pray at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2023, the exact time of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, during a memorial ceremony in the southwestern Japan city. (Pool photo)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher presents a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 5, 2023. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Harbi

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-JAPANESE GERM WARFARE-NEW EVIDENCE (CN)

(230807) -- MUDANJIANG, Aug. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 5, 2023 shows a photocopy of a document from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. An original material from a Japanese army hospital that cooperated with Unit 731, a Japanese germ warfare army during World War II, has gone on public display for the first time in Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The material on display is composed of 17 documents, with a total of 36 pages, and features the hospital's information from its establishment on July 16, 1941 to Oct. 11, 1945. The hospital could accommodate about 7,200 patients. The material is of great significance for research into the Japanese army hospital, which was implicated in conducting vivisections, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which is located in Ha

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Damage done by U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a large pine tree felled by the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug 11, 1945.

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Damage done by U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a tree uprooted by the blast of the U.S. atomic bombing. Behind the tree is a truck left just with its burnt frame. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug 11, 1945.

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a collapsed block fence following the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945.

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a store, Odamasa Shoten, whose frame was twisted by the blast from the U.S. atomic bombing. Standing next to it is the exterior of the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper building. The photo was taken in Ebisu, Hiroshima City, sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945.

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Dead rice plants in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows rice plants in a paddy located 1.2 kilometers from the epicenter of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The rice plants died as a result of heat waves of the bombing. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945.

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Nagasaki marks 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - People observe a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m. during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945.

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Nagaoka fireworks for war remembrance at Pearl Harbor

HONOLULU, United States - Photo taken Aug. 11, 2014, shows a plate at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, explaining Japan's attack on the harbor in 1941 bringing the United States' direct participation in World War II. Sister cities Honolulu and Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture have announced a plan to hold a firework display using fireworks from the Japanese city, which has a century-old fireworks tradition, at Pearl Harbor on Aug. 15, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. Aug. 15 is the day Japan surrendered in 1945.

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Nagaoka fireworks for war remembrance at Pearl Harbor

HONOLULU, United States - Tourists view Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Aug. 11, 2014. Sister cities Honolulu and Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture have announced a plan to hold a firework display using fireworks from the Japanese city, which has a century-old fireworks tradition, at Pearl Harbor on Aug. 15, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. Aug. 15 is the day Japan surrendered in 1945.

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'Barefoot Gen' marks 40th anniversary of publication

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Misayo Nakazawa, widow of Keiji Nakazawa, is seen in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on June 11, 2013, sitting in front of magazines and other publications that carried her late husband's manga series "Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen)." The series describes the life of a 6-year-old boy called Gen before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker.

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Nagasaki on eve of A-bomb anniv.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lanterns are lit in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2011 on the eve of the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city, to console the souls of people killed in the 1945 attack as well as those who perished in the March 11 disaster in the northeast.

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Ex-comfort women in S. Korea call for Japan to compensate

SEOUL, South Korea - Former wartime ''comfort women'' and their supporters in South Korea stage a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, to request an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government on Aug. 11, 2010. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued an apology the day before to South Korea over Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korean A-bomb survivor who sought unpaid medical fees dies

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Kang Young (photo), a South Korean atomic bomb survivor who filed a lawsuit in Japan over unpaid medical allowances, died on July 11 in a hospital in Busan, South Korea. He was 78. Lee, born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, was exposed to radiation in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, while he was working there as a forced laborer. This photo was taken in February, 2003.

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Koizumi airs view on Sept. 11 election

NAGASAKI, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responds to questions in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 about the general election set for Sept. 11, after attending a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. (Pool photo)

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Wall clock donated to Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman in the city of Nagasaki has donated a wall clock (in photo) that stopped at the moment of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at around 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, museum officials said on Oct. 12. The clock, which has almost no scratches or cracks, was in her home at the time of the explosion. The home was located some 5 kilometers from the center of the blast.

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Japanese soldiers wrote antiwar letters from Chinese front

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an archive compiled by an Imperial Japanese Army research team in 1940 analyzing the results of censorship on mail. Japanese soldiers at the front line during the 1937-1945 war with China wrote antimilitary letters to their families and friends, even though they knew their correspondence would be censored by the army, said scholars Aug. 11 after discovering the correspondence among materials at the Defense Agency's library in Tokyo.

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(9)Hiroshima marks 57th anniversary of atomic-bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Naomitsu Miwa (R), 12, and Yoshie Hijioka, 11, read ''a pledge for peace'' at a ceremony marking the 57th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city.

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Kijuro Shidehara

A diplomat turned politician who served as Japan's second postwar prime minister from October 1945 to May 1946. Shidehara became foreign minister twice before World War II (1924-27, 1929-31). The so-called Shidehara diplomacy of 1920s was characterized as its advocacy of international cooperation and a conciliatory attitude toward China. Born Aug. 11, 1872 and died March 10, 1951.

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Nagasaki A-bombed 10 minutes earlier than believed: expert

NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo shows the mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Shigeo Motoyama, a senior official of the Nagasaki Marine Observatory, said that judging by a steep jump in air pressure recorded by equipment located 4 kilometers from ground zero on the day of the bombing, the bomb could have been dropped at around 10:52 a.m., 10 minutes earlier than the current official time of 11:02 a.m.

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Nagasaki mourns death of 5,500 school A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki citizens mourn the death of about 5,500 pupils and teachers in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city in an annual ceremony at the city's Peace Hall on Aug. 1. Mourners offered a silent prayer at 11:02 a.m., the time the bomb exploded over the city on Aug. 9, 1945.

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Nagasaki urges nuke elimination as city marks 77th A-bomb anniv.

Nagasaki marked the 77th anniversary Tuesday of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city during World War II, with Mayor Tomihisa Taue calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons amid mounting concern over their potential use following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A moment of silence was observed at 11:02 a.m., the exact time on Aug. 9, 1945, when a plutonium bomb codenamed "Fat Man" dropped by a U.S. bomber exploded over the port city, only the second time a nuclear weapon has been used in war. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who represents a constituency in Hiroshima and has expressed readiness to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons, said, "Even in the midst of a severe security situation, we must continue our history of non-use of nuclear weapons and continue to make Nagasaki the site of the last atomic bombing."

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Wall clock donated to Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman in the city of Nagasaki has donated a wall clock (in photo) that stopped at the moment of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at around 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, museum officials said on Oct. 12. The clock, which has almost no scratches or cracks, was in her home at the time of the explosion. The home was located some 5 kilometers from the center of the blast. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki marks 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - People observe a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m. during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi airs view on Sept. 11 election

NAGASAKI, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responds to questions in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 about the general election set for Sept. 11, after attending a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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S. Korean A-bomb survivor who sought unpaid medical fees dies

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Kang Young (photo), a South Korean atomic bomb survivor who filed a lawsuit in Japan over unpaid medical allowances, died on July 11 in a hospital in Busan, South Korea. He was 78. Lee, born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, was exposed to radiation in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, while he was working there as a forced laborer. This photo was taken in February, 2003. (Kyodo)

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Ex-comfort women in S. Korea call for Japan to compensate

SEOUL, South Korea - Former wartime ''comfort women'' and their supporters in South Korea stage a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, to request an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government on Aug. 11, 2010. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued an apology the day before to South Korea over Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki on eve of A-bomb anniv.

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lanterns are lit in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2011 on the eve of the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city, to console the souls of people killed in the 1945 attack as well as those who perished in the March 11 disaster in the northeast. (Kyodo)

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker. (Kyodo)

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Nagaoka fireworks for war remembrance at Pearl Harbor

HONOLULU, United States - Photo taken Aug. 11, 2014, shows a plate at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, explaining Japan's attack on the harbor in 1941 bringing the United States' direct participation in World War II. Sister cities Honolulu and Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture have announced a plan to hold a firework display using fireworks from the Japanese city, which has a century-old fireworks tradition, at Pearl Harbor on Aug. 15, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. Aug. 15 is the day Japan surrendered in 1945. (Kyodo)

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Damage done by U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a large pine tree felled by the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug 11, 1945. (Kyodo)

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Damage done by U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a tree uprooted by the blast of the U.S. atomic bombing. Behind the tree is a truck left just with its burnt frame. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug 11, 1945. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a store, Odamasa Shoten, whose frame was twisted by the blast from the U.S. atomic bombing. Standing next to it is the exterior of the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper building. The photo was taken in Ebisu, Hiroshima City, sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a collapsed block fence following the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945. (Kyodo)

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Dead rice plants in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows rice plants in a paddy located 1.2 kilometers from the epicenter of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The rice plants died as a result of heat waves of the bombing. The photo was taken sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Peace Prize Concert

Terumi Tanaka (C of front row) and Toshiki Fujimori (R of front row), survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, stand on the stage during the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert held in the suburbs of Oslo on Dec. 11, 2017. Musicians invited to the concert played a piano that had survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, in honor of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, ICAN, an international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Peace Prize Concert

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima, claps at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert held in the suburbs of Oslo on Dec. 11, 2017. Musicians invited to the concert played a piano that survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, in honor of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, ICAN, an international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Peace Prize Concert

The annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert is held in the suburbs of Oslo on Dec. 11, 2017. Musicians invited to the concert played a piano that had survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, in honor of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, ICAN, an international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese soldiers wrote antiwar letters from Chinese front

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an archive compiled by an Imperial Japanese Army research team in 1940 analyzing the results of censorship on mail. Japanese soldiers at the front line during the 1937-1945 war with China wrote antimilitary letters to their families and friends, even though they knew their correspondence would be censored by the army, said scholars Aug. 11 after discovering the correspondence among materials at the Defense Agency's library in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki A-bombed 10 minutes earlier than believed: expert

NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo shows the mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Shigeo Motoyama, a senior official of the Nagasaki Marine Observatory, said that judging by a steep jump in air pressure recorded by equipment located 4 kilometers from ground zero on the day of the bombing, the bomb could have been dropped at around 10:52 a.m., 10 minutes earlier than the current official time of 11:02 a.m.