{"id":6779,"date":"2010-08-16T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2010-08-10T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:41:11","slug":"nagasaki-remembers-atomic-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/08\/nagasaki-remembers-atomic-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagasaki Remembers Atomic Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people gathered in the Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday [9 Aug 2010] to mark 65 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>In 1945, the nuclear bomb hit Nagasaki three days after Japan&#8217;s city of Hiroshima was first struck by\u00a0a US atomic bomb. Collectively, they killed about 80,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the bombings is updated each year by the Japanese government, as residents continue to suffer from their after-effects, including detrimental levels of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>After a minute&#8217;s silence to honour the dead, Japan&#8217;s prime minister Naoto Kan, who attended the gathering, spoke of the country&#8217;s self-imposed ban on the possession and production of nuclear arms.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ln6Zwcfv3l4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people gathered in the Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday [9 Aug 2010] to mark 65 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city during the Second World War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","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=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}