{"id":73277,"date":"2025-08-06T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/hiroshima-mayor-ukraine-middle-east-nuclear-history-atomic-bombing-80th-anniversary"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:39:48","slug":"hiroshima-anniversary-mayor-says-ukraine-and-middle-east-crises-show-world-ignoring-nuclear-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73277","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear \u2018tragedies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise \u2018inhumane\u2019 consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrent<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2016\/apr\/18\/story-of-cities-hiroshima-japan-nuclear-destruction\">Hiroshima<\/a> has led calls for the world\u2019s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.<\/p>\n<p>As residents, survivors and representatives from 120 countries gathered at the city\u2019s peace memorial park on Wednesday morning, Kazumi Matsui warned that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">conflicts<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> and the Middle East had contributed to a growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/hiroshima-survivors-urge-g7-leaders-to-unite-against-atomic-weapons\">acceptance of nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/hiroshima-mayor-ukraine-middle-east-nuclear-history-atomic-bombing-80th-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise \u2018inhumane\u2019 consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrentThe mayor of Hiroshima has led calls for the world\u2019s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,441,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-second-world-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73277\/revisions\/73278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}