At attention: Crew members of Japan
Plans are afoot to revise Japan’s postwar peace constitution to assert its right to declare war and rename the self-defence forces.
On Aug 6, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took part in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, an event which, combined with the following atomic bombing of Nagasaki, compelled Japan to surrender nine days later on Aug 15, ending the Second World War.
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