Word: urakami
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asylum for the blind and dumb. Of the city's 210,000 wartime inhabitants, it killed 38,000, wounded 21,000 others. Among the dead were 40% of Nagasaki's Christian population, which for centuries has been the biggest of any Japanese city; its Oura and Urakami Roman Catholic churches, respectively the oldest and biggest in Japan, were also hit (both have since been rebuilt). Though Communist propaganda has placed Hiroshima's death toll as high as 250,000, a survey released last week by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission estimated that the first A-bomb claimed...
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