Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing on Nagazaki on Sunday remembering the 70,000 people who died in the deadly bombing.
Speeches at the ceremony criticised the attending Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his plans to loosen the restrictions on what Japan’s military can do.
At least 70,000 people died in the attack, which came three days after another bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Nagasaki was only chosen after a cloud obscured the original target, Kokura.
A minute’s silence and bells marked the time of the explosion in 1945 at 11:02 (02:02 GMT).
A survivor of the Nagasaki attack, 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi, described the injuries he had suffered and said he could not accept Mr Abe’s new legislation.
