Hiroshima Mayor Lashes out at U.S. on 59th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing, notes Shinya Ajima

2004-08-06

Photo of Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound, courtesy of The City of Hiroshima.

HIROSHIMA — Hiroshima on Friday morning marked the 59th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city. An estimated 40,000 people attended the ceremony that started at 8 a.m. at the Peace Memorial Park in the downtown part of the western Japan city that was devastated in the world's first nuclear attack Aug 6, 1945, three days before the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

In his peace declaration, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba voiced serious concern over the "egocentric worldview" of the United States and moves in Japan to revise the country's pacifist Constitution.

Shinya Ajima
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