Japanese Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe on 70th Anniv of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki democracynow.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from democracynow.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin lays flowers at the cenotaph for victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima, just two days before an annual memorial ceremony where he was uninvited due to Russia s ongoing war on Ukraine.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will likely sound out U.S. President Joe Biden during his visit to Japan about holding a Group of Seven nations summit in Hiroshima next year.
<p><br> Mr. Tsuboi Sunao would appear to be an ordinary healthy elderly Japanese man except for the large patch of white skin that medical specialists call leucoderma on his forehead. He is a cheerful 79 year old, but over the past 60 years he has been critically ill four times, each time being told that he would not survive. He first fell ill immediately after the bombing of Hiroshima when he was unconscious for 40 days. He is presently suffering from prostate cancer. Despite his illness he