The mayor of Hiroshima on Thursday warned of the ongoing dangers of nationalism and militarism on the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the Japanese city by the United States on August 6, 1945.
“We must never allow this painful past to repeat itself,” said Kazumi Matsui. “Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats.”
Matsui tied the current moment and ongoing Covid-19 outbreak to the struggles of the world during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed 50 million people worldwide.
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