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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Emperor, Empress visit Hiroshima to pay respect to A-bomb victims, met with survivors

NHK media

Japanese Public Media covers the June 19 visit

of the royal family to Hiroshima their first since

ascending to their royal status/ as Emperor-Empress  in 2019.

ww3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250619_16/

80 years ago 

August 6, 1945 was the

date at 8:15 local time that

the Enola Gay dropped the

Atomic Bomb "Little Boy" on

the Japanese city 1,800 feet above

the military-industrial city; 

killing 80,000 in first minutes.

It was a uranium bomb.

Three days

later a different flight mission

dropped "Fat Man" on

Nagasaki, an ancient site

where Christianity had first

taken root in feudal Japan.

Military planners moved the 

drop site from Kokura a more

strategic military target but 

cloud cover made the second

devastated city's 2-mile area

totally pulverized and 73,000

civilians killed.

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