Ageing Japan bomb survivors back pope's anti-nukes call

Ageing Japan bomb survivors back pope's anti-nukes call https://ift.tt/34jKJA4 November 24, 2019 at 05:53AM Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/27ryfmF

Kenji Hayashida thought about committing suicide in the years after an atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Nagasaki. On Sunday he will hear Pope Francis call there for a world without nuclear weapons, a message 81-year-old supports passionately. Like many ageing survivors of the attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Hayashida hopes the pope can bring fresh international attention to the cause of nuclear abolition, and also keep alive the memory of the devastating bombings.

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