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Japan marks 73rd anniversary of atomic attack on Hiroshima
Updated On: 06 August, 2018 01:30 PM IST | Tokyo | AFP
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, standing at the park near ground zero for the annual ceremony, made his annual call for a world without nuclear weapons and warned of the threat of rising nationalism
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Family members offer prayers for the atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 6, 2018. Pic/AFP
Tokyo: A bell tolled on Monday in Hiroshima as Japan marked 73 years since the world's first atomic bombing, with the city's mayor warning that rising nationalism worldwide threatened peace. The skies over Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park were clear, just as they were on August 6, 1945, when an American B-29 bomber dropped its deadly payload on the port city dotted with military installations, ultimately killing 140,000 people.
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, standing at the park near ground zero for the annual ceremony, made his annual call for a world without nuclear weapons and warned of the threat of rising nationalism. Without naming specific nations, he warned that "certain countries are explicitly expressing self-centred nationalism and modernising their nuclear arsenals." They were "rekindling tensions that had eased with the end of the Cold War," he added.
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