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Banners for peace encircle A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Participants hold banners with messages of peace near Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome at an event calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons on Aug. 1, 2010. Atomic bombing survivors, schoolchildren and others, who encircled the dome, tied 900 banners contributed from around Japan with ribbons and offered silent prayers to those killed by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, ahead of its 65th anniversary on Aug. 6.

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Hiroshima offers permanent home to Okamoto's 'Myth of Tomorrow'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - With a copy of Taro Okamoto's mural ''Myth of Tomorrow'' in the background, Akiomi Hirano, director of Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Tokyo, speaks to reporters in Hiroshima on Jan. 9 about Hiroshima's offer to house Okamoto's painting at a park north of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome. The ''Myth of Tomorrow,'' a 5.5-meter-by-30-meter mural painted on seven panes of concrete, depicts the moment of an atomic bomb explosion and a skeleton burning under a mushroom cloud. Tokyo and Osaka have also expressed interest to offer a permanent home for the giant mural produced between 1968 and 1969 in Mexico.

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Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome illuminated

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Atomic Bomb Dome at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima is illuminated on Dec. 16 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of its entry on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

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Candles lit around Atomic Bomb Dome

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A number of candles are lit to pray for world peace on the night of New Year's Eve around the Atomic Bomb Dome near Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park.

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Children stage 'die-in' at Hiroshima A-bomb Dome

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Children on Aug. 6 stage a ''die-in'' in front of Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome at 8:15 a.m., the exact time of the A-bomb blast 55 years ago, in an appeal for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the world.

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Hiroshima offers permanent home to Okamoto's 'Myth of Tomorrow'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - With a copy of Taro Okamoto's mural ''Myth of Tomorrow'' in the background, Akiomi Hirano, director of Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Tokyo, speaks to reporters in Hiroshima on Jan. 9 about Hiroshima's offer to house Okamoto's painting at a park north of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome. The ''Myth of Tomorrow,'' a 5.5-meter-by-30-meter mural painted on seven panes of concrete, depicts the moment of an atomic bomb explosion and a skeleton burning under a mushroom cloud. Tokyo and Osaka have also expressed interest to offer a permanent home for the giant mural produced between 1968 and 1969 in Mexico. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome illuminated

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Atomic Bomb Dome at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima is illuminated on Dec. 16 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of its entry on UNESCO's World Heritage List. (Kyodo)

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Banners for peace encircle A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Participants hold banners with messages of peace near Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome at an event calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons on Aug. 1, 2010. Atomic bombing survivors, schoolchildren and others, who encircled the dome, tied 900 banners contributed from around Japan with ribbons and offered silent prayers to those killed by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, ahead of its 65th anniversary on Aug. 6. (Kyodo)

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Candles lit around Atomic Bomb Dome

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A number of candles are lit to pray for world peace on the night of New Year's Eve around the Atomic Bomb Dome near Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park.

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Children stage 'die-in' at Hiroshima A-bomb Dome

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Children on Aug. 6 stage a ''die-in'' in front of Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome at 8:15 a.m., the exact time of the A-bomb blast 55 years ago, in an appeal for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the world.