Nagasaki ordered to pay funeral fees for overseas A-bomb survivo

NAGASAKI, Japan - Family members of Choi Gye Chol, a South Korean atomic-bomb survivor who died at age 78 in a hospital in Busan, South Korea, last July 25, stand in front of the Nagasaki District Court on March 8 before entering the court to hear a ruling on their claim that the Nagasaki city government should pay Choi's funeral expenses. Choi was exposed to radiation when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, in World War II. (Kyodo)