Overview

• At Nagasaki Peace Park, Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko bowed and laid white bouquets at the ground-zero cenotaph.
• It was Naruhito’s first visit to the city since his accession and Princess Aiko’s first ever, concluding a tour of Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Hiroshima.
• The family visited the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum to view exhibits and meet survivors, with a nursing-home visit scheduled for Saturday and a lantern welcome held Friday night.
• Survivors, whose average age now exceeds 86, continue pressing for nuclear abolition as they warn of a growing global nuclear threat.
• The United States dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killing more than 70,000 by year’s end, three days after a uranium bomb on Hiroshima killed about 140,000.