Japan commemorates 79th anniversary of Nagasaki atomic bombing

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Japan on Friday (Aug 9) marked the 79th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing with a peace ceremony amid some controversy.  Israel's ambassador to Japan was not invited to attend this year's ceremony which prompted the U.S. and other G7 nations to snub the event.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/25shuhnt  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Japan on Friday marked the 79th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing with a peace

00:11ceremony amid some controversy.

00:14Israel's ambassador to Japan was not invited to attend this year's ceremony, which prompted

00:19the U.S. and other G7 nations to snub the event.

00:24Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki on Thursday said Israel was not invited over fears that protests

00:29against its war in the Gaza Strip could affect the ceremony's solemnity, but he added that

00:35the decision was not political.

00:38Russia's and Belarus' representatives to Japan were also not invited, while Palestine's ambassador

00:44was invited.

00:45The Nagasaki atomic bombing came three days after the U.S. carried out the world's first

01:11nuclear attack in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, during World War II.

01:17The two bombings killed more than 215,000 people, with thousands more dying later of

01:23injuries and radiation-related illness.

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