Herald Sun
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August 06, 2012
TENS of thousands of people have marked the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as a rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment swells in post-Fukushima Japan.
A dedication ceremony handing over a list of new victims of the atomic bombing who have died over the past year into the memorial cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in western Japan today. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Ageing survivors, relatives, government officials and foreign delegates attended the annual ceremony at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park commemorating the US bombing of the western Japanese city nearly seven decades ago.
An American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, turning the city into a nuclear inferno and killing an estimated 140,000 in the final chapter of World War II.
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