Kyodo - About 5,500 pupils and teachers who died in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 were remembered at a memorial service in the southwestern Japanese city Wednesday. About 300 people, including relatives and Nagasaki elementary and junior high school students, attended the ceremony in the town of Hirano in Nagasaki Prefecture. Our school alone lost more than 100 children and teachers in the bombing. The U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki came three days after the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima.
Many survivors still suffer physical and mental anguish as a result of the bombings.