Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (Oct 11), for their ‘efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons’.

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The annual peace ceremony in Nagasaki has not yet sent an invitation to the Israeli ambassador to Japan, according to city officials, who instead wrote the embassy a letter urging a truce in Gaza.

Japan’s Nagasaki snubs Israel: No invite to peace ceremony, calls for truce in Gaza

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On the fateful day of August 9, 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki, a major port for trade faced unfathomable devastation at the hands of the US, thus putting an end to Japan's participation in the Second World War.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president plans to visit Hiroshima, but the residents of the city are calling for it to be cancelled because it would "dishonour" the victims of the bomb attack.

Olympic chief accused of insulting Hiroshima survivors by visiting atomic bombing site

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will refrain from visiting the Yasukuni shrine for war dead on the 75th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Jiji news agency said on Sunday, but will make an offering on the emotive day, as he has done in the past.

Japan's Abe to avoid visit to war-linked shrine on 75th war anniversary: Jiji

US dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and three days later another bomb was dropped on the southern city of Nagasaki on August 9

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