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NEWS ABOUT: Nagasaki

Nagasaki stories: 6 news summaries

 Japanese Man, 
 93, Survived 
 Both A-Bombs 

Was on business in Hiroshima; lived in Nagasaki

Mar 24, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - At 93, a Japanese man has become the first certified survivor of both atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the AP reports. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business Aug. 6, 1945, when the US bombed the city; after a night there, he returned home to Nagasaki, bombed Aug. 9.... More »

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Japan • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • atomic bomb • survivors

Nagasaki Mayor's Killer Confesses

Alleged gangster apologizes in court
as trial opens

Jan 22, 08 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - The Japanese man accused of killing the mayor of Nagasaki last April has admitted to the crime, the BBC reports. "I apologize to Mayor Iccho Ito and his family from the bottom of my heart," Tetsuya Shiroo said today on the first day of his trial. An alleged... More »

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Japan • Iccho Ito • Nagasaki • Tetsuya Shiroo

Tree That Survived
A-Bomb Sees 70th Christmas

Japanese family kept tree through calamities

Dec 22, 07 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A Japanese soldier's Christmas tree has stayed with his family through dark times, and even survived the atomic bomb that killed his brother in Nagasaki. This year marks the 70th Christmas that Warren Nobuaki Iwatake has put up the fragile, three-foot tree, which he calls "a shining light, because... More »

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Japan • Nagasaki • World War II • Christmas

Hiroshima Bomb Pilot Dead at 92

Pilot defended his role to the last, said he had 'no regrets'

Nov 1, 07 3:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The commander and pilot of the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945—the first military use of nuclear weapons—died today, the Associated Press reports. Paul Tibbets was 92, and requested no funeral or headstone for fear that they might attract anti-nuclear protesters. Tibbets always... More »

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Japan • nuclear weapons • obituary • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • World War II • atomic bomb

Japanese Pol Resigns Over A-Bomb Gaffe

Defense minister
said WWII bombings were inevitable

Jul 3, 07 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japan's defense minister has resigned in a storm of protest over remarks he made last weekend that the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. Fumio Kyuma said he understood the US decision to drop the bombs, and that "it couldn't be helped." He also suggested that... More »

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Japan • Fumio Kyuma • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • atomic bomb

Mobster Guns Down Nagasaki Mayor

Officials attribute slaying to grudge against city

Apr 18, 07 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mayor of Nagasaki was murdered yesterday by a gangster affiliated with Japan's largest organized-crime syndicate. The assassin, who shot Iccho Ito twice in the back, reportedly was steamed that the city refused to pay for damages to his car after he drove it into a hole at a construction... More »

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Japan • organized crime • Iccho Ito • Yakuza • murder • Nagasaki • Tetsuya Shiroo

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