In Japan, thousands of people gathered in Nagasaki to mark the sixty-third anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. The US bombing killed more than 140,000 residents of the city. Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue called for the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons.

Tomihisa Taue: “We ask the United Nations and the international society to push North Korea, Pakistan and Israel to denuclearize and hold strict measures against Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons.”