Nagasaki has marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response to the Japanese city’s refusal to invite Israel.
Find Insider Deals for items perfect around the house and on the goU.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel , right, and Israeli Ambassador to Japan Gilad Cohen, left, attend an annual ceremony at the Zojoji temple to honor the Nagasaki atomic bombing victims, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024.
The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killed 70,000 people, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima killed 140,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II and its nearly half-century of aggression across Asia. More than 2,000 people, including representatives from 100 countries, attended Friday's ceremony. But ambassadors from the U.S. and five other Group of Seven nations — Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. — and the European Union were absent. Their governments sent lower-ranking envoys in response to Suzuki's decision not to invite Israel.U.S.
He said excluding Israel drew"a moral equivalency between Russia and Israel, one country that invaded versus one country that was a victim of invasion,” and that “my attendance would respect that political judgment, and I couldn’t do that.”
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