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...Pope in Rome, contact was dropped. When Japan was once again opened to foreign contact in the 19th century, representatives of the hidden Christians again sought contact with the foreign missionaries. Once Catholic priests were located, a community of secret Catholics numbering in the thousands and centered around Nagasaki revealed itself. So Christianity did not die in Japan after 1637; it merely went underground...
...haven't learned the lesson--if we haven't seen the threads between Dresden, Nagasaki, Attica, Jackson State and Kent State--then we don't understand the violence of our time," he concluded...
Crucial Issue. The touchiest matter is the question of nuclear weapons, always a crucial issue in Japanese politics because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The oblique language of the treaty in this regard-that the "U.S. would not exercise the right to store nuclear weapons on Okinawa" unless Japan agrees -stems from the fact that the U.S. has never officially acknowledged that it has nuclear weapons on Okinawa. There are, in fact, quite a few of them. Last week the Defense and State departments jointly proposed to the White House that hundreds of nuclear bombs, ground-to-ground rockets, atomic land...
...American-Japanese investigatory team studied 20,000 Hiroshima-Nagasaki survivors, all of whom were under ten in 1945. The findings, reported in the British medical journal Lancet, define a "high-risk group" within the 20,000 as those who were exposed while in the open air one mile or less from the explosion's center. Cancer has been ten times more frequent in this group than among those who were inside shelters or situated farther from the explosion. Even among people exposed to a lesser degree of radiation, cancers of the thyroid, uterus and bone have developed in increasing...
...actual number of cancers detected so far in the high-risk group is only 19, the team points out that these occurred in a sampling of only 1,109 people, the oldest of whom is now just 35. Among Japanese of the same age who arrived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the bombings, cancer has occurred at less than one-fourth this rate. Even this incidence is unexpectedly high, and the investigators cannot yet explain...