On August 9, Prime Minister and LDP President Abe attended the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony, which commemorated the atomic bomb attack with a moment of silence and the sounding of the Bell of Nagasaki at 11:02, the moment at which the bomb was detonated. At the ceremony, he discussed the tragedy in which more than 70,000 precious lives were instantaneously lost, vowing to" never repeat the horrors of nuclear devastation," and vowed to Japan to maintain the Three Non-nuclear Principles and play a leading role in the international community to create a world free of nuclear weapons.

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