US and UK ambassadors to skip Nagasaki memorial amid controversy
2 min readThe US and UK ambassadors to Japan will not attend the Nagasaki atomic bomb victim memorial on August 9 due to the Nagasaki administration's decision not to invite the Israeli envoy.
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This Sept. 14, 1945, file photo shows shacks made from scraps of debris from buildings that were leveled in the aftermath of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki. (AP)
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