Outgoing Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue calls for continuing efforts to spread awareness of the horror of nuclear weapons as he recalled his 16 years as head of the city in southwestern Japan, the site of an atomic bomb attack in World War II.
Within months of brutal assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, there is another explosion at the event of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's political speech.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was unconscious and unresponsive Friday after being shot in the chest during a political event, shocking a nation where gun violence is rare. Abe, 67, was shot twice from behind about 10 feet away while campaigning for Sunday’s upper house election in the western