Officers participate in the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

A silent prayer was held in Japan on Wednesday morning as it was marked as 80 years as the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony with officials around the world on Wednesday.

“Japan is the only nation that has faced atomic bombing in the war,” Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui said at the city’s Peace Memorial Park. “The Japanese government represents those who aspire for real and permanent peace.”

The World War ended with Japan’s surrender after the bombing in two Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which separated for days.

Bombs killed over 200,000 people – some from immediate explosion and other radiation disease and irritation.

The legacy of weapons still harasses the remaining people.

Hiroshima’s survivor Shingo Nito told the BBC, “My father was badly burnt and blinded by the explosion. His skin was hanging from his body – he could not even hold my hand.” He was six years old when the bomb killed his city, killing his father and two younger brothers and siblings.

Shri Nito is sharing his story with a group of students in Hiroshima, which is turning his memories of the tragedy into art.

In 2024, Nihon Hidenkio, a Japanese group of atomic bombs, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to get rid of the world of nuclear weapons.

In a speech on Wednesday, Mayor Matsui of Hiroshima warned “the tendency to move around the world worldwide” and “the idea that nuclear weapons are necessary for national defense” warned.

He said, “These events disregard the international community from the tragedies of history,” he said. “They threaten to demolish the structure of peace building, so many people have worked so hard to build.”

Matsui said that the nuclear non -proliferation treaty, which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and promote peaceful use of nuclear power, was “on the verge of laxity”.

He also called upon the Japanese government to confirm the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons – an international agreement banning nuclear weapons in 2021.

More than 70 countries have confirmed the treaty, but nuclear powers like the US and Russia have opposed it, pointing to the preventive work of the nuclear arsenal.

Japan has also rejected such restrictions, arguing that its protection has increased by American nuclear weapons.

The nuclear issue is a divisive in Japan. On the roads leading to Peace Memorial Park, there were small protests for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Sitoshi Tanaka, another atomic bomb, who faces many cancers from radiation risk, said that his own suffering is increased today by seeing bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine.

He told the BBC, “Running into the mountains of debris, destroyed cities, children and women, all this brings back the memories of what I used to do.” “We are living with nuclear weapons that can erase humanity many times.”

“The most important priority is to push the leaders of nuclear-skill countries. The people of the world should be even more angry, raise their voice vigorously, and take mass action.”