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Remembering Canada’s Pacific role during the Second World War, 75 years laterSeventy-five years ago, the Second World War ended with Japan's surrender. Matthew Fisher takes a look at what history may have been like for Canada's troops.CommentarySep 1, 2020
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Nagasaki urges world to abandon nuclear weapons on 75th anniversary of bombingAt 11:02 a.m., the moment the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped a 4.5-ton (10,000-pound) plutonium bomb dubbed "Fat Man,'' Nagasaki survivors and other participants stood in a minute of silence to honour more than 70,000 dead.Aug 9, 2020
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Canadian Nobel laureate, Hiroshima survivor urges world to ban nukesSetsuko Thurlow was 13 when the 1945 bombing devastated her Japanese city.CanadaDec 10, 2017
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Robotic dinosaur receptionists are part of the staff at Tokyo ‘robot hotel’Dinosaur receptionists were on standby as a hotel staffed mostly by robots and automatons opened in Tokyo, Japan.TechMar 15, 2017
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Obama to become 1st sitting U.S. president to visit HiroshimaThe White House announced the visit in a statement Tuesday morning, saying Barack Obama will visit along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a previously scheduled visit to Japan.PoliticsMay 10, 2016
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Pope Francis says the detonation of atomic bombs over Japan stands as ‘permanent warning’Pope Francis says the detonation of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago remains "a permanent warning to humanity" to reject war and ban weapons of mass destruction.WorldAug 9, 2015
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Nagasaki marks 68th anniversary of atomic bombingNagasaki's mayor criticized Japan's government on Friday for failing to back an international nuclear disarmament effort as the country marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of his city.WorldAug 9, 2011
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