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Japan's PM Fumio Kishida and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky laying wreaths at the Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 21.
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HIROSHIMA – The calm, serene waters of the Seto Inland Sea seem at odds with talks about a bloody, brutal war.
Yet, there is arguably nowhere more apt, given that the sea had also borne witness to the mushroom cloud on Aug 6, 1945, when Hiroshima became ground zero of the world’s first atomic bomb. About 140,000 people died in the city.
