Tag: Japan
Pope says he hopes to visit Japan in 2019
Pope Francis told a group of Japanese visitors to the Vatican that he wants to visit Japan in 2019.
Pope prints postcard illustrating the horror of war
In an unusual move late Dec. 30, the pope had the Vatican press office and Vatican media distribute a copy of a famous photograph from the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Veterans get hero’s welcome after visit to war memorials in Washington
Minnesota native and Key West retiree Raymond Blazevic vividly remembers being drafted into the U.S. Navy and joining 70,000 other recruits at a boot camp just south of the Canadian border during World War II.
Nagasaki girls’ choir brings message of peace to St. Paul
On Aug. 9, just after 11 a.m., an unusual group marked a significant international anniversary together: Japanese school girls sang a special song to remember the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on that date in 1945.
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