THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 6, 2022 at 18:31 JST
Kazuko Hirota, left, presents flowers as a representative of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima city at the Aug. 6 ceremony. (Takuya Tanabe)
HIROSHIMA--Hiroshima on Aug. 6 marked the day 77 years ago when a blinding flash leveled this western Japan city in the first use of an atomic bomb in warfare, killing tens of thousands of residents in an instant and thousands more in the years that followed. [Read More]
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