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  • Hiroshima mayor lashes out at U.S. on 59th anniversary of atomic bombing

    08/05/2004 5:58:18 PM PDT · by GATOR NAVY · 157 replies · 10,517+ views
    Japan Today ^ | 06 Aug 04 | Shinya Ajima
    Friday, August 6, 2004 at 08:51 JST 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...