This week, Japan commemorates the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, which killed hundreds of civilians and ended World War II, the postwar constitution of Japan limited its military forces and renounced war as a right of the nation. However, as Henry Ridgwell reports from Hiroshima, rising threats from the region’s neighbors, North Korea and China, have forced a radical shift in strategy.
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