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Tokyo, Aug 8 (EFE), (Camera: Dai Kurokawa).- Nagasaki is preparing to commemorate on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city.Workers on Saturday were finishing the details for the event along with more than 400 chairs in the Peace Park arranged in rows of 20 with a safe distance between them due to pandemic restrictions.FOOTAGE OF THE PREPARATIONS.
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Hiroshima, Aug 6 (EFE/EPA).- A ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima served Thursday as a call for the government of Japan, the only country that has suffered a nuclear attack, to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).The appeal was made by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the commemoration of the United States' nuclear attack on Aug. 6, 1945, three days before another atomic bomb destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki.(Camera: DAI KUROKAWA)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUCLEAR BOMB THAT DESTROYED HIROSHIMA IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.
Hiroshima, Aug 5 (EFE/EPA).- Japan, the only country to have ever suffered a nuclear attack, is preparing to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a memory that continues to torment thousands of survivors who continue to cry out for the abolition of atomic weapons.The events will take place Thursday in Hiroshima and Sunday in Nagasaki, the only two cities in the world that have suffered nuclear bombings, with events that will include the presence of authorities and survivors’ representatives.The "Little Boy" bomb that fell on Hiroshima caused more than 100,000 deaths, while in Nagasaki "Fat Man" killed about 75,000 people. (Camera: DAI KUROKAWA). SHOT LIST: MONKS PRAY BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMB DOME AT PEACE MEMORIAL PARK AND THE HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL MUSEUM IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.