One minute was held in Hiroshima in Hiroshima on Wednesday, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony and urged all countries to work towards nuclear disarmament.
“We should make every effort to feel a world without a nuclear war and eventually have a world without nuclear weapons”, Ishiba told the audience at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park.
Bomb dropped bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people – some immediate explosions and other radiation from disease and irritation.