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.
Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and other speakers during Tuesday s ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the second atom bomb dropped on Japanese soil by the United States at the end of World War II insisted that theirs should be the last tragedy ever of that nature.