{"id":270818,"date":"2024-08-05T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=270818"},"modified":"2024-08-02T06:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:49:25","slug":"nagasaki-excludes-israel-from-nuclear-bombing-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/nagasaki-excludes-israel-from-nuclear-bombing-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagasaki Excludes Israel from Nuclear Bombing Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Atomic bomb damage at Hiroshima, Japan seen by the USS Appalachian 17 Nov 1945<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki states that the decision to not invite Israel stems from a desire for peace during the ceremony.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

31 Jul 2024 <\/em>– The Japanese city of Nagasaki will not invite Israel<\/a> to its annual commemoration ceremony of the victims of the United States 1945 nuclear attack, held on August 9, the city’s mayor announced today.<\/p>\n

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said the decision to not invite the Israeli occupation<\/a> stems from a desire for peace during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

“Nine days are left, and there are still concerns to this moment … That is why we have decided not to invite [Israel]. This is not a political decision. This decision comes from the fact that we want to have a peaceful and smooth ceremony.”<\/p>\n

However, he said the decision was a “pity” because Nagasaki had sent invitations and wanted multiple representatives to attend.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Israeli Ambassador to Japan<\/a>, Gilad Cohen, slammed the decision, saying it sent the wrong message to the world.<\/p>\n

“The decision by Nagasaki’s mayor not to invite Israel to the Peace Memorial Ceremony on August 9th is regrettable, sends a wrong message to the world, and deflects from the core message that Nagasaki has been promoting for years.”<\/p>\n

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31 Jul 2024 – The Japanese city of Nagasaki will not invite Israel to its annual ceremony for the victims of the US 1945 nuclear attack on 9 Aug, the city’s mayor announced today.\u00a0He said the decision stems from a desire for peace during the ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":241189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1347,179,450,70,581],"class_list":["post-270818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weapons-of-mass-destruction","tag-hiroshima-and-nagasaki","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-usa","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270819,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270818\/revisions\/270819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}