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People pray for the atomic bomb victims in front of the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan during a ceremony to mark the 74th anniversary of the bombing Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. (Kyodo News via AP)

Hiroshima marks 74th anniversary of atomic bombing

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A woman prays in front of Peace Memorial Statue at Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, marking the 73rd anniversary of U.S. bombing on the city. (Takuma Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP)

Nagasaki marks 73 years since A-bombing as UN chief attends

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In Friday, Aug. 8, 2018, photo, Namio Matsura, 17-year-old member of the computation skill research club at Fukuyama Technical High School, watches Hiroshima city before atomic bomb fell in virtual reality experience at the high school in Hiroshima, western Japan. Although it's impossible to relive a moment in history, a group of the students have recreated the moment an atomic bomb dropped over the city through VR to portray the livelihood of people that was taken away as a result of the bombing. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)

Japanese students use VR to recreate Hiroshima bombing

By HARUKA NUGA - Associated Press

Rescuers remove the debris to clear an area hit by a mudslide caused by heavy rains in Hiroshima, southwestern Japan, Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Rescuers were combing through mud-covered hillsides and along riverbanks Tuesday searching for dozens of people missing after heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in southwestern Japan. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)

Many out of power, water in flood-hit Japan; over 150 dead

By Haruka Nuga and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

As the world reels from North Korea's nuclear posturing, survivors hope young and old will remember the commitment to peace that followed the hypermilitarized mania of imperial Japan — and the American bombs that crushed it. (Associated Press/File)

Japan’s nuclear bomb survivors hope world remembers horror

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

With an appeal of "never again," Japanese visited Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima this year to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1945 attack that killed 140,000 people. (Associated Press/File)

Japan debates constitution’s military passivism

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, photo, Kim Ji Nho, a pro-Pyongyang ethnic Korean who was born in Hiroshima, shows his only family photo taken in 1963 with him, third from right in the back, and his mother, top left, during an interview with The Associated Press in Hiroshima, western Japan. Kim, 71, is a &quot;hibakusha,&quot; or atomic-bomb survivor, who was exposed to radiation when his mother, pregnant with him, went to the ruins of the city to search for a daughter who went missing in the blast. &quot;We 'hibakusha' and our groups share a clear goal, which is to abolish nuclear weapons from the world,&quot; Kim said. &quot;Nuclear weapons should never be used.&quot; (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

N. Korean missiles add urgency to Hiroshima A-bomb appeals

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Correction: Japan-US-Burying Ghosts story

By KEN MORITSUGU and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan on Friday. Mr. Obama's visit was criticized by the left and the right. Some said his rhetoric does not match his actions and others said his speech sounded like an apology. (Associated Press)

Obama’s Hiroshima visit panned by critics on left, right

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obam, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands after laying wreaths at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western, Japan, Friday, May 27, 2016. Obama on Friday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, bringing global attention both to survivors and to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons. Atomic Bomb Dome is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama at Hiroshima: ‘Death fell from the sky’; he’s the first sitting U.S. president to visit

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama is greeted by U.S. Marines and their families at Iwakuni air station in Iwakuni, Japan, Friday, May 27, 2016, after attending the G-7 Summit in Shima, central Japan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NBC News’s unfortunate headline wording: ‘Job’s Not Done’ in Hiroshima

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands after speaking to media in Shima, Japan, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama apologizes to Japan for ex-Marine charged with murder

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's practice of apologizing for America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

MONICA CROWLEY: Obama, Hiroshima and the Left’s destructive compulsion to apologize

By Monica Crowley

In this May 3, 2016, photo, Arthur Ishimoto, 93, a Japanese-American and U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service veteran, poses with archival photographs of himself as he is interviewed in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Obama’s Hiroshima visit stirs differing views across Pacific

By Mari Yamaguchi and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Illustration on keeping Hiroshima and Nagasaki in context by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The horrors of Hiroshima in context

By Victor Davis Hanson

President Barack Obama speaks at the newly designated Belmont-Paul Women&#8217;s Equality National Monument, formerly known as the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, on National Equal Pay Day, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in Washington. The museum says the house was erected more than 200 years ago. The National Woman's Party bought the house in 1929 and uses it as its headquarters, advocating for equality and full political representation for women. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama hasn’t decided whether to visit Hiroshima, White House says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, doves fly over the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park during the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

John Kerry makes gut-wrenching visit to Hiroshima site of A-bomb

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

In this Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, doves fly over the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park during the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

John Kerry’s visit to Hiroshima grabbing spotlight at G-7 meeting

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Catholics listen the preaching at an early morning mass to pay respect to the victims of the Nagasaki atomic bombing at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, one on Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A miracle at Hiroshima — four Jesuits survived the atomic bomb thanks to the rosary

Catholic News Agency