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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Hiroshima bomb survivors say peace park agreement with Pearl Harbor is an ‘insult’

The Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
The Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. Victims of the atomic bomb in Japan are angry at an agreement linking it with a memorial in Pearl Harbour. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AP

Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have reacted angrily to an agreement that links the city’s peace park with a memorial in Pearl Harbor.

The sister-park agreement, signed this week by the US ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, and the mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, is designed to promote peace and friendship between the former Pacific war enemies.

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