Japan marked the 62nd anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, observing a minute of silence Monday at 8:15 a.m., the time at which the first atom bomb in the world was dropped on the city by the American warplane, Enola Gay.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a speech he would his efforts to convince world leaders to abolish nuclear weapons across the globe. More than 140,000 died in Hiroshima in the bombing, which together with a second atomic bombing, on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, effectively ended World War II.