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The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing memories can help make their hometown the last place to be hit by a nuclear bomb. The U.S. launched the Nagasaki attack on Aug. …

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died at a hospital in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 3, according to a statement on Sunday from the Urakami Catholic Church, …