August 9, 2016

"Nagasaki, a southwest Japanese city, marked the 71st anniversary of atomic bombing on Tuesday, amid calls from ordinary Japanese people for reflecting on the country's aggression history.

The annual event, held at the city's Peace Park, was itself once again short of any apology to Japan's neighbors for the war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army and also without any reflection on Japan's militarist history of invasion.

Nagasaki was A-bombed on Aug. 9, 1945. Three days earlier, Hiroshima was A-bombed. The United States dropped the two bombs in a bid to accelerate Japan's surrender in WWII."

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